Related Clues:

• Hazardous
• Grim
• Unsafe
• Desperate, as circumstances
• Kind of need
• Desperate, as a situation
• Ruinous
• Desperately urgent
• __ straits (difficult position)
• Drastic
• Kind of emergency
• More than serious
• Fraught with danger, as circumstances
• Far from a sure thing
• Fraught with uncertainty