Related Clues:

• Kind of situation
• Type of situation
• Vain
• Futile
• Like some situations
• Hopeless
• Impossible
• 'It's a -- situation'
• Beyond help
• -- situation
• Hopeless, as situations go
• Darned-if-you-do, darned-if-you-don't
• Grim, as a situation
• Like a hopeless situation
• Like a Catch-22