"and"

[Steve75]

All the answers contain the word and:

12. A situation or difficult to solve problem (7)

[FrogNog]

quandry

[douglas9401]

Quandry

[Captain2]

Quandry

[Steve75]

Thanks all!

[slaney]

I wondered about that, but thought the spelling was quandary.

[BlackadderV]

Slaney is correct

[bookbinder]

You are correct, slaney. It looks as if someone, somewhere, has made a mistake:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/quandary

[Baldric]

Funny you should mention that Slaney!

[Captain2]

You're quite right slaney - don't let that lot on the spelling police thread know that we're all dumbos here ;-)

[Bathsheba]

...too late Captain,....I've caught you ...;) x

[Captain2]

Dam ...... now I'm in a quand........ oh hang on :0))

[ducksie]

what if it was DilemNA? if the "and" letters weren't all together, almost like an anagram - just a thought, when I seen this posted first I thought Quandary, then realised there were too many letters so left it

[BlackadderV]

From Iolanthe (G&S):

A plague on this vagary,
I'm in a nice quandary -
Of hasty tone
with dames unknown,
I ought to be more chary;
It seems that she's a fairy
From Andersen's library,
And I took her for the proprietor
Of a La-dies' Se-mi-nary!

[BlackadderV]

In the above quandary is deliberately mispronounced with the stress on the second syllable for comic rhyming effect.

[FrogNog]

Hang on Captain 2, I started that thread and was first to spell it badly here.
Don't shoot the messenger lol.

[Captain2]

Oooops, sorry about that FrogNog - I didn't notice you leading the line!

[FrogNog]

Haha it doesn't matter Captain2. That's the fun of it. :)

[vakayu]

Who is going to administer the 50 lashes lol.

[FrogNog]

WOO!!! Pick me Pick ME! :)))