| Most morbid |
TV |
24 Aug 2025 |
| Most morbid |
TV |
17 Aug 2025 |
| Bleakest remix of Drake's opening track (7) |
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| Kestrel filmed in Devon river, black as can be |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 May 2025 |
| Like the night right before dawn, proverbially |
New York Times |
11 Apr 2025 |
| Most gloomy faces tense around king |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Apr 2025 |
| The blackest desk art (7) |
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| Bleakest |
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| Murkiest, dimmest |
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| Having little light, set out to be most sinister (7) |
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| This clue is most unfair (7) |
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| _ Hour, 2017 biographical film starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill (7) |
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| Duskiest |
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| Blackest |
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| Least promising |
Commuter |
02 Aug 2024 |
| Least light (7) |
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| - Hour, Gary Oldman film (7) |
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| ___ timeline (worst possible trajectory) |
USA Today |
06 Dec 2023 |
| Murkiest |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 May 2023 |
| Most sinister |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Oct 2022 |
| ''And the ... hour is just before dawn'' (1960s' song Dedicated to the One I Love) |
Irish Times Simplex |
19 Sep 2020 |
| Most gloomy shoot -- describing Ken Loach film |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Apr 2020 |
| "The ___ Hour," 2011 film starring Emile Hirsch about a group of people caught in an alien invasion |
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| Most dirty knees regularly scrubbed in spring |
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| "___ Hour," Gary Oldman's movie about Winston Churchill which was released a day prior to Thanksgiving in 2017 |
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| Least lit |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Sep 2018 |
| Most gloomy braves hold end of tomahawk with a bit of trepidation |
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| Least lit |
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| Most dim |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Nov 2017 |
| Least lit |
LA Times Daily |
22 Dec 2016 |
| Most gloomy |
LA Times Daily |
01 May 2016 |
| Least lit |
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| Most murky |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2015 |
| Least lit |
USA Today |
25 Jul 2015 |
| Most murky |
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| Least lit |
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| Metal band ___ Hour |
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| Most dismal |
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| Most dismal |
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| Least lit |
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| William Booth's "In ___ England and the Way Out" |
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| Least lit |
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| __ Africa |
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| Worst, hour-wise |
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| Least promising |
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| Word for pre-dawn time |
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| Like the time before dawn. |
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| Livingston's part of Africa |
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| Pre-dawn adjective. |
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| Pre-dawn status. |
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| Stanley's adjective for Africa. |
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| Most gloomy. |
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| Like the hour before dawn. |
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| It's this before dawn. |
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