Related Clues:

• More than serious
• Fraught with danger, as circumstances
• ___ straits
• Hardly looking good
• Desperate, as a warning
• Desperate, as straits
• Extremely worrisome
• Really dreadful
• Foreboding trouble
• Alarming
• In __ straits
• Cataclysmic
• Of very poor quality
• Harrowing
• Needing immediate attention