Gloomy Crossword Clue

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Gloomy Crossword Answer

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DREARY

(6 letters)

SAD

(3 letters)

DOUR

(4 letters)

MOROSE

(6 letters)

UNLIT

(5 letters)

DISMAL

(6 letters)

GUS

(3 letters)

MOURNFUL

(8 letters)

BLEAK

(5 letters)

SOMBER

(6 letters)

SULLEN

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
2. causing dejection

Hint 2: Clue Definition

GLOOMY (adjective)
1. depressingly dark
2. causing dejection

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

DREARY
(6 letters)
SAD
(3 letters)
DOUR
(4 letters)
MOROSE
(6 letters)
UNLIT
(5 letters)
DISMAL
(6 letters)
GUS
(3 letters)
MOURNFUL
(8 letters)
BLEAK
(5 letters)
SOMBER
(6 letters)
SULLEN
(6 letters)

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Across

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9. "Nanny" or "billy" animal

13. Web addresses

14. Nabisco cookie

15. Small donkey

16. Pest-control device

18. Continue a subscription

19. Exceed the posted limit

20. Knights title

21. In unison

22. ___-Tac-Toe

24. Tina Turner or Joan Jett, for example

26. Scotland's national flower

30. Make coffee or beer

31. "You ___ me at hello"

32. Epic tale

34. What a phoenix rises from

37. Feels unwell

39. 'my bad'

41. Acorn producers

43. Ruins

45. "Hello! I'm a cat!"

47. See 65-Down

48. Part of a train track

50. Sparkle like ice in the sun

52. Opportunities

55. Ginger ___ (soft drink)

56. Beetle larvae

57. Pre___ (future doctor's program)

59. Ice cream drinks

63. Cuban dance with yambú and guaguancó styles

64. Addition or subtraction, for example

66. Personal heroes

67. River in an Agatha Christie title

68. Round hairstyle

69. __ mortals

70. Remarked

71. Penny's value

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Down

1. Totals

2. Object created by a movie's art department

3. Part of a crossword

4. Good things to have

5. Top of a semicolon

6. Messes up

7. Show on TV again

8. Easy peasy!

9. Instruction given while covering someone's eyes

10. "... huh, nevermind"

11. PHX ___ (basketball venue in Arizona)

12. Tall building

15. Car's slowing mechanism

17. Revises a manuscript

23. Time-tested and still worthy

25. Art-supply company that sells its best-known product in multiples of eight

26. Unfreeze

27. Stuff held by a scrunchie

28. At rest

29. Inflated sense of self-importance

33. Sleeve filler

35. Sunrise direction

36. ___-ball (arcade game)

38. Struggle to get a foothold

40. Abbreviation on a gas-station sign

42. ___ Francisco

44. The Sunflower State

46. Mother of Pebbles on The Flintstones

49. "When life gives you ___ ..."

51. Pacific Northwest airport named after two cities

52. Like unrefined oil

53. Good sense of ___

54. Reddish-brown photo tint

58. Place to order pastrami on rye

60. ___, the Universe, and Everything (Douglas Adams book)

61. Ripped

62. ___-nosed kid

65. Body of water connected to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal (Continued at 47-Across)

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