| Not up to snuff | 15 |
| Not enough | 10 |
| Unable to make the grade | 24 |
| When you might pay | 18 |
| Facing trouble | 14 |
| Up the creek | 12 |
| Stymied | 7 |
| Really stuck | 12 |
| Up the proverbial creek | 23 |
| Stuck, figuratively | 19 |
| Beset by trouble | 16 |
| Very quickly | 12 |
| Instantly | 9 |
| Spacing out | 11 |
| Not quite with it | 17 |
| Mentally spaced out | 19 |
| Extremely agitated | 18 |
| For a long time | 15 |
| Since way back when | 19 |
| For a very long time | 20 |
| For years on end | 16 |
| "I haven't seen you ___" | 38 |
| " . . . our help ___ past" | 36 |
| Piled | 5 |
| Like dirty clothes, often | 25 |
| Piled randomly | 14 |
| Piled haphazardly | 17 |
| Piled carelessly | 16 |
| Piled any which way | 19 |
| Piled and ready for the washing machine | 39 |
| Not stacked | 11 |
| Not at all well-organized | 25 |
| Like unsorted laundry | 21 |
| Like rubble after a razing | 26 |
| All piled up | 12 |
| Having debts | 12 |
| Financially strapped | 20 |
| Struggling | 10 |
| Having debt | 11 |
| Owing too much money | 20 |
| Owing too much | 14 |
| Not solvent | 11 |
| Having serious debts | 20 |
| Having money problems | 21 |
| Financially compromised | 23 |
| Down at the casino | 18 |
| Burdened with debts | 19 |
| Burdened with debt | 18 |
| Alice in Chains "Down ___" | 36 |
| Pressed for time | 16 |
| Rushing | 7 |
| Scampering and scurrying | 24 |
| Liable to do something slapdasH | 31 |
| Highly ambitious | 16 |
| Dashing, maybe | 14 |
| "... bombs bursting __" | 33 |
| "The bombs bursting ___" | 34 |
| "... bombs bursting ___" | 34 |
| " . . . bombs bursting ___" | 37 |
| ''... bombs bursting ___'' | 42 |
| "... bombs bursting ---" | 34 |
| Words before "Gave proof through the night" | 53 |
| Where to see "bombs bursting" | 39 |
| Where Francis Scott Key saw bombs bursting | 42 |
| Site of 'bombs bursting' | 32 |
| Place for "bombs bursting" | 36 |
| Lead __: EPA concern | 20 |
| "...bombs bursting ___" | 33 |
| "... the bombs bursting ___ ..." | 42 |
| ". . .bombs bursting __" | 34 |
| ". . . bombs bursting ___" | 36 |
| Where to see bombs bursting | 27 |
| Where there are "bombs bursting," to an anthem singer | 63 |
| Where Key's bombs burst | 27 |
| Where bombs burst, so we sing | 29 |
| Where bombs burst, in song | 26 |
| Place for ''bombs bursting'' | 44 |
| Key scene for bursting bombs? | 29 |
| "We build castles ___ when flushed with wine and conquest": Butler | 76 |
| "The bombs bursting ___ . . . " | 41 |
| "Bombs bursting ___" | 30 |
| "Bombs bursting ___ ..." | 34 |
| "And seem to walk on wings, and tread __": Pope | 57 |
| "...bombs bursting ---" | 33 |
| "...bombs bursting __" | 32 |
| "...bombs bursting __..." | 35 |
| "...bombs bursting ____" | 34 |
| "...bombs bursting _____" | 35 |
| "... the bombs bursting ___" | 38 |
| "... the bombs bursting ___..." | 41 |
| "... bombs bursting ___ ..." | 38 |
| ". . . the bombs bursting ___" | 40 |
| ". . . the bombs bursting __ . . ." | 45 |
| ". . . bursting __" | 29 |
| " . . . bursting ___" | 31 |
| " . . . all seem pendulous ___": Poe | 46 |
| ''. . . the bombs bursting __ . . .'' | 53 |
| '... bombs bursting --' | 31 |
| Up the creek, so to speak | 25 |
| Trouble-ridden | 14 |