| Not promising |
Universal |
30 Aug 2025 |
| Blood group loss made the outlook hopeless (5) |
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| Blake can adopt that dull and cheerless expression (5) |
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| Cold and desolate (5) |
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| Judge sequesters large Dickensian house? |
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| Blake at work is dreary (5) |
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| _ House, novel by Charles Dickens (5) |
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| Depressing entry of water at the bulkhead (5) |
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| Small surface-feeding shoal fish (5) |
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| Fish of the carp family whose scales are used in making artificial pearls (5) |
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| Primarily barren-looking, even after Kabul (5) |
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| Gloomy book to exfiltrate for publication |
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| Cold and piercing |
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| Dickens novel featuring Esther Summerson (5,5) |
The Guardian Weekend |
15 Feb 2025 |
| - House, Dickens novel (5) |
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| Slender silvery freshwater fish of the genus Albumus (5) |
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| Charmless (5) |
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| With a less-than-optimistic outlook |
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| Cold, raw fish (5) |
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| Dickens's house is grim (5) |
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| Unpromising |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Nov 2024 |
| Desolate sort of small river fish? (5) |
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| Barren and windswept |
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| Bill catches large fish |
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| Desolate at large content of bill |
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| Gloomy magistrate, about fifty (5) |
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| "Look round and round upon this bare ___ plain ..." (Charles Dickens) |
Universal |
16 Jul 2024 |
| ___ House, Dickens novel (5) |
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| Magistrate about fifty, cold and uncharitable (5) |
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| Cheerless magistrate about fifty (5) |
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| Dull, cheerless |
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| Dreary like a barren winter landscape |
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| Start to bury disclosure of information that's miserable (5) |
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| Offering little or no hope |
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| Drear (5) |
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| Dickens's "__ House" |
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| Exposed and barren (5) |
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| Grim |
New York Times |
03 Mar 2024 |
| Novel house but starting to let rain in |
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| Grim as Dickens's house? |
Mirror Cryptic |
26 Feb 2024 |
| Barren |
Mirror Quick |
26 Feb 2024 |
| Marble cake without cream turned out bitter |
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| Gloomy |
Newsday |
16 Jan 2024 |
| For fish, make the bill out for cash! |
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| Forbidding as Dickens's house |
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| Dull black ooze (5) |
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| Barren |
Mirror Quick |
01 Jan 2024 |
| Forbidding as Dickens’s house |
Mirror Cryptic |
01 Jan 2024 |
| Cheerless half of Dickens' work (5) |
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| '-- House', 1853 novel by Charles Dickens (5) |
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| Dismal |
The Guardian Quick |
10 Nov 2023 |
| Discouraging |
Newsday |
22 Oct 2023 |
| Dreary |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Oct 2023 |
| Dreary |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Aug 2023 |
| Not optimistic |
LA Times Daily |
13 Aug 2023 |
| Gloomy |
LA Times Daily |
03 Aug 2023 |
| Dreary |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Jun 2023 |
| Grimly unpromising |
The Times Concise |
05 Jun 2023 |
| In trouble, a king's miserable |
The Guardian Cryptic |
01 Mar 2023 |
| Not looking good |
USA Today |
20 Nov 2022 |
| Dreary |
Universal |
06 Aug 2022 |
| 50 in bill for fish |
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| Gloomy judge incarcerates Liberal |
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| Very gloomy-looking judge hoovering up line |
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| Bare, exposed |
The Times Concise |
17 Feb 2022 |
| Desolate, when left with bill outside |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Feb 2022 |
| Cold and miserable |
New York Times |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Cold; cheerless |
The Guardian Speedy |
15 Aug 2021 |
| Depressing |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jun 2021 |
| Depressing |
The Washington Post |
12 Jun 2021 |
| Stark |
The Washington Post |
06 Jun 2021 |
| Stark |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jun 2021 |
| Gloomy |
Universal |
07 May 2021 |
| Cold and windswept lake Bill crosses |
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| Grim |
Universal |
28 Feb 2021 |
| Dickens's '___ House' |
New York Times |
07 Dec 2020 |
| *Dismal |
LA Times Daily |
15 Sep 2020 |
| *Dismal |
The Washington Post |
15 Sep 2020 |
| Desolate |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Jul 2020 |
| Dismal British disclosure |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Jul 2020 |
| Cold and dreary |
Universal |
02 Mar 2020 |
| Severe judge imprisons learner … |
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| Grim black hole |
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| Lima taken in by Bill Stark |
Irish Times Crosaire |
14 Dec 2019 |
| Cold fish |
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| Desolate |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Sep 2019 |
| Unpromising |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Sep 2019 |
| Hardly hospitable |
Wall Street Journal |
07 May 2019 |
| Far from encouraging |
USA Today |
10 Feb 2019 |
| Unpleasantly cold |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Jan 2019 |
| Far from encouraging |
|
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| Hardly hospitable |
|
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| Unpromising |
|
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| Dismal swimmer in river |
|
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| Dreary |
Newsday |
10 Oct 2018 |
| Despairing poet moving end of verse to earlier position |
|
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| Cheerless |
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| "The future looks ___." (Not promising) |
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| Desolate |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Feb 2018 |
| Dismal bishop gets disclosure |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Dec 2017 |
| Cheerless |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Dec 2017 |
| Far from rosy |
Newsday |
03 Nov 2017 |
| Swimmer looking miserable |
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| Cold fish |
|
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| Cold and raw fish |
|
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| Dim or grim |
New York Times |
15 Apr 2017 |
| Grim judge impounds laptop |
|
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| Dim or grim |
|
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| Dickens's "___ House" |
|
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| Grim |
|
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| Gloomy |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Dec 2016 |
| Not at all promising |
USA Today |
29 May 2016 |
| Not at all promising |
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| Not promising |
LA Times Daily |
16 Dec 2015 |
| Cheerless |
Universal |
26 Nov 2015 |
| What the dickens! House is so isolated? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Nov 2015 |
| Desolate and dreary |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Nov 2015 |
| Grim |
Eugene Sheffer |
31 Oct 2015 |
| Cheerless |
USA Today |
22 Sep 2015 |
| Raw fish |
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| Dismal |
Newsday |
16 Apr 2015 |
| Rather hopeless |
Newsday |
29 Jan 2015 |
| Dismal |
|
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| Not promising |
|
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| Cheerless |
|
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| Desolate and dreary |
|
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| Rather hopeless |
|
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| Cheerless |
|
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| Far from optimistic |
|
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| Not very promising |
|
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| Like film noir |
|
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| Far from promising |
|
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| Far from promising |
|
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| Cheerless |
|
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| Discouraging |
|
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| Dreary |
|
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| Like some prospects |
|
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| Discouraging |
|
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| Just about hopeless |
|
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| Just about hopeless |
|
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| Dickens' "___ House" |
|
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| Like a wasteland |
|
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| Dickens's "___ House" |
|
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| Like a wasteland |
|
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| Hopeless |
|
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| Grim |
|
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| Unpromising |
|
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| Hopeless |
|
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| Just about hopeless |
|
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| Not promising |
|
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| Not promising |
|
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| Dreary |
|
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| Like the tundra |
|
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| Cheerless |
|
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| Desolate, when left with bill outside |
|
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| Discouraging |
|
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| Hardly promising |
|
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| Opposite of rosy |
|
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| Like some prospects |
|
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| Grim |
|
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| Far from comforting |
|
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| Not rosy |
|
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| "___ House": Dickens |
|
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| Dispiriting |
|
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| __ House (Dickens) |
|
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| Stark; barren; dreary |
|
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| Cheerless. |
|
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| Lacking kindliness. |
|
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| Dickens "House." |
|
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| Desolate and windswept. |
|
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| Swept by cold winds. |
|
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| Desolate. |
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