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Answer for the clue "Crumbling path rated a highly dangerous place to be ", 9 letters:
deathtrap

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An extremely dangerous location, structure or device. 2 A plot device where a villain in a story puts a hero in an elaborate dangerous situation for the purposes of attempting a sadistic murder.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed

Usage examples of deathtrap.

If the operation was wide enough, even this backstop position could become a deathtrap.

She needed vivid, persuasive visuals to demonstrate that airplane was a deathtrap.

Looking left, away from these deathtraps, he saw a wide alcove with a stone bench at the back of it.

Rommel’s antiparatroop precautions had paid off well: The waters and swamps of the flooded Dives valley were deathtraps.

He could see the Dragoons standing on the lips of the chasm, firing down into the deathtrap of the road where, nine hundred years before, the Moors had been slaughtered.

That hedgerow, with its sunken lane behind, would be a deathtrap to cavalry, while an open meadow, bright with buttercups and rising towards a fat farm on a gentle hill, would be a place to avoid like the plague if French cuiraisseurs were in the area.

After you have washed and dressed properly, we'll have some nice cucumber sandwiches and pink tea that Towanda packed for lunch, then we'll tell you where all of the new deathtraps are hidden.