| Hit boy back - how sad (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Said sadly 'He is in awful digs' (6) |
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| Unhappy and mad, is sorting out the pupil (6) |
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| Mild as well as gloomy (6) |
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| Cheerless |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Jun 2025 |
| Manic maids find student depressing (6) |
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| Depressing |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Jun 2025 |
| Sidney returns to Malcolm rather gloomy (6) |
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| Bleak and depressing |
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| Melancholy maids get upset before fifty (6) |
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| Bleak, depressing (6) |
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| Sombre |
Mirror Quick |
04 May 2025 |
| Maids somehow left gloomy |
Mirror Cryptic |
04 May 2025 |
| Miserable face Sergeant-Major wears |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
16 Apr 2025 |
| With gloomy face, the sergeant major enters (6) |
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| Lads, I'm really down (6) |
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| Gloomy lad is different when pocketing money (6) |
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| 50 maids go off looking gloomy (6) |
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| Gloomy and sad, I'm about to reach the half century (6) |
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| Misdeal distributed with no energy, dreary (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
15 Dec 2024 |
| I'm off with the lads and you look gloomy |
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| Sombre |
Mirror Quick |
12 Dec 2024 |
| Maids somehow left gloomy |
Mirror Cryptic |
12 Dec 2024 |
| I'd return, seeing Mal's gloomy look (6) |
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| Miserable maids lost by lake (6) |
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| Causing a mood of depression or gloom (6) |
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| Gloomy sergeant-major with face put out |
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| Gloomy |
Newsday |
26 Sep 2024 |
| Sid returns to Mal, miserable and gloomy (6) |
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| Gloomy daughter's sick in Spain (6) |
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| Gloomy (6) |
Puzzler |
13 Aug 2024 |
| Sidney returned with Malcolm. How bad is that! (6) |
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| Left to last, I'm sad, worried and gloomy |
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| I'm sad when ploughed at Latin ___ very gloomy (6) |
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| Like unhappy maids left behind (6) |
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| I'm sad when ploughed at Latin - very gloomy |
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| Depressing |
Puzzler Backwords |
24 Jun 2024 |
| Lousy M&S rolls stuffed in face |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
23 Jun 2024 |
| Gloomy as mild change (6) |
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| Glum face when the sergeant-major comes in (6) |
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| Sunless |
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| Sid turned on Mal - it's terrible (6) |
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| Gloomy daughter is left cuddling mother |
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| Bleak though sometimes seen as mild (6) |
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| Inwardly gloomy child is malcontented |
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| Cheerless |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 May 2024 |
| Miserable face sergeant major wears |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 May 2024 |
| Dreary |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 May 2024 |
| Gloomy sergeant major in control |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 May 2024 |
| Cheerless |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 May 2024 |
| Woebegone |
Wall Street Journal |
04 May 2024 |
| Despondent section of crowd is malevolent (6) |
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| Laid up without manuscript. How miserable (6) |
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| As mild as can be, yet gloomy (6) |
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| Sad the new maid's left (6) |
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| Gloomy face about return of manuscript (6) |
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| Gloomy part of the legend is malicious (6) |
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| New maids left sad (6) |
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| Discourage maids performing end of play (6) |
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| The new maid's left, having been unhappy |
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| Sorrowful face after accepting unusual sexual style |
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| Something about sadism always looks gloomy (6) |
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| It's sad when there are many misdirected mails (6) |
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| Depressing, gloomy |
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| Causing gloom or depression (6) |
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| Dreary and dispiriting (6) |
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| Dreary, sombre (6) |
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| Dreary |
New York Times |
29 Jan 2024 |
| Cheerless (SLIM AD anagram) (6) |
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| Mal and Sid can be so gloomy! |
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| Having left after the split- up, I'm sad and gloomy (6) |
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| Grey slate to hammer back (6) |
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| Grey slate to hammer back |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Jan 2024 |
| Cheerless |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Dull, dreary, dingy, depressing ... D is the initial sign of misery, all unending |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Dec 2023 |
| Dull, dreary, dingy, depressing ... D is the initial sign of misery, all unending (6) |
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| Bleak |
New York Times |
16 Dec 2023 |
| I'm disturbing the lads by looking gloomy |
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| Pretty bleak |
USA Today |
13 Nov 2023 |
| Woeful, depressing |
The Times Concise |
26 Oct 2023 |
| Gloomy sergeant major wearing ring |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Aug 2023 |
| Dark face masks, small and medium |
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| Insult mother with large pants |
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| Miserable maids, mistreated, left |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Bleak |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Feb 2022 |
| Cheerless |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Dec 2021 |
| Dreary |
USA Today |
10 Dec 2021 |
| Dreary |
The Times Concise |
05 Oct 2021 |
| Heart of niggard is malicious and cheerless |
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| Depressing, grim |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 May 2021 |
| Miserable face sergeant-major wears |
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| Bleak |
USA Today |
18 Apr 2021 |
| Gloomy |
Universal |
14 Apr 2021 |
| Grim and unhappy maids facing student |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Mar 2021 |
| Gloomy |
LA Times Daily |
07 Mar 2021 |
| Gloomy |
The Washington Post |
07 Mar 2021 |
| Very dreary |
Newsday |
17 Nov 2020 |
| Very far from fine |
Newsday |
17 Oct 2020 |
| Gloomy, cheerless |
Irish Times Simplex |
07 Oct 2020 |
| Really bad |
The Washington Post |
03 Oct 2020 |
| Really bad |
LA Times Daily |
03 Oct 2020 |
| Grim |
LA Times Daily |
29 Jul 2020 |
| Grim |
The Washington Post |
29 Jul 2020 |
| “She had the ____ precocity of poverty” (Thackeray, describing Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair) |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
26 Jul 2020 |
| Bleak |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Mar 2020 |
| Gloomy |
Canadiana |
24 Feb 2020 |
| Gloomy face, bored by second minute |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Dec 2019 |
| Sadism always intrinsically bad |
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| Dreary, gloomy |
The Times Concise |
21 Oct 2019 |
| Depressing |
Universal |
13 Oct 2019 |
| Part of screed is malicious, dreary |
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| Dark heart of husband is malicious |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Aug 2019 |
| Gloomy |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Aug 2019 |
| Dreary |
New York Times |
22 Jul 2019 |
| Dreary |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jun 2019 |
| Dreary |
The Washington Post |
21 Jun 2019 |
| Gloomy sergeant major in control |
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| Some oddly stuffing face must be miserable |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Apr 2019 |
| Papers review most of The Short - it's dark |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Mar 2019 |
| Miserable |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Feb 2019 |
| Dreary |
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| Dreary |
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| Miserable |
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| Depressing |
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| Bleak |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Dec 2018 |
| I'm sad, worried, low and disconsolate |
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| Bleak |
The Washington Post |
11 Oct 2018 |
| Bleak |
LA Times Daily |
11 Oct 2018 |
| Terrible call, second man implicated |
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| Dreary |
The Guardian Speedy |
15 Sep 2018 |
| Miserable face sergeant major wears |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Aug 2018 |
| Cheerless |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Aug 2018 |
| Discouraging nudism, allocates clothes |
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| Do it so male suffering cuts becomes poor |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Mar 2018 |
| Bleak |
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| Gloomy little sergeant major with face put out |
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| Sad face about some odds |
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| Girl with mini, short and dark |
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| Methodism allows drinking? Very disappointing |
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| Bleak philosophy embraced by youth in recession |
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| Ring about manuscript being twisted and miserable |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Feb 2017 |
| Hardly encouraging |
The Washington Post |
28 Dec 2016 |
| Gloomy sergeant major has face put out |
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| Some oddly stuffing face must be miserable |
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| Bleak |
Universal |
28 Jun 2016 |
| Papers review most of most of The Short - it's dark |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Mar 2016 |
| Wretched strikes I had backed |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Feb 2016 |
| Some sadism allowed in dark |
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| Dreary |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Feb 2016 |
| Bleak |
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| Hit boy back – how sad |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Dec 2015 |
| Cheerless |
Newsday |
25 Dec 2015 |
| It's awful to criticise Mum's Latin |
The Telegraph Toughie |
24 Dec 2015 |
| Cheerless |
Universal |
18 Dec 2015 |
| Gloomy |
Family Time |
10 Aug 2015 |
| Gloomy NCO occupied phone |
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| Dreary; awful |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Lads I'm organising are gloomy |
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| Notice to get rid of the International Space Station is depressing |
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| Dull; doleful |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Jan 2015 |
| Gloomy |
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| Cheerless |
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| Cheerless |
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| Bleak |
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| Wretched |
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| Grad's opposite |
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| Dreary |
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| Brought back head of languages to help over manuscript of poor quality |
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| Gloomy mug laid into by sergeant major |
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| Hardly encouraging |
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| Gloomy |
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| Gloomy |
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| Really sorry |
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| Gloomy |
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| Woeful |
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| Gloomy |
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| Hardly cheery |
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| Gloomy |
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| Cheerless |
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| Bleak |
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| Hardly cheery |
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| Bleak and cheerless |
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| Dark and gloomy |
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| Pretty bad |
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| Cheerless |
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| Cheerless |
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| Dreary |
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| Cloudy and damp |
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| Saturnine |
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| Bleak |
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| Particularly bad |
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| Hardly cheery |
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| Cheerless |
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| Melancholy |
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| Gloomy |
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| Miserable maids, mistreated, left |
|
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| Cheerless |
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| ____ Swamp |
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| Looking gloomy |
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| Bleak |
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| Hardly encouraging |
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| Gloomy. |
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| Bleak. |
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| Lugubrious. |
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| Cheerless. |
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| Dreary. |
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| Gray and gloomy. |
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