The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DILEMMAS
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More clues leading to the result DILEMMAS
- Problems in book with small cover wrapped round
- Lid’s replaced: Jane Austen’s heroine has problems
- With hat turned round, girls show they let us choose
- End up on top of literary heroine’s problems
- I had reversed pieces of proof, creating problems
- Difficult situations for the Italian heroine trapped in them initially
- Sank back having grabbed book offering puzzles
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What does DILEMMAS mean?
DILEMMAS noun- A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- A difficult circumstance or problem.
- A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
- Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.