- - Wretched dad at home with bad flu
- - Extremely bad
- - Tender Christian missionary recruiting in force
- - Like some dental work
- - Creating hurt
- - Causing hurt
- - Agonizing, like a toothache
- - "While pensive poets ........ vigils keep, / Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep" (Alexander Pope)
- - Causing discomfort
- - Sore, perhaps
- - It hurts father at home to find you in Florida
- - Like some realizations
- - Embarrassing facts mostly checked by NT writer
- - Hard to bear.
- - Laborious
- - Grievous.
- - Irritating
- - Hurting
- - See 17-Across
- - Sore
- - amount of cooked food gets one sore
- - Distressing
- - Messing up final is hard to bear
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