| Downbeat, melancholy |
The Times Concise |
01 Nov 2025 |
| Dismal, dark |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Oct 2025 |
| Brother wrapped in considerable melancholy |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Oct 2025 |
| Painful to keep doctor in the dark (6) |
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| Our rail system is in some circumstances cheerless (6) |
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| In the dark shade of a sombrero? (6) |
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| Grave, gloomy (6) |
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| Dark or dismal (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
27 May 2025 |
| Doleful doctor probed abscess (6) |
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| Sore about a bachelor being drab (6) |
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| Bitter about doctor being gloomy (6) |
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| Drab |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Feb 2025 |
| A few stand round British grave (6) |
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| Drab hat's 25% off |
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| Dull banker's jacket found among unspecified number (6) |
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| 75 per cent of hat is dark (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
10 Jan 2025 |
| Gloomy doctor consumed by affliction |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Dec 2024 |
| Gloomy with a sombrero or without it |
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| Gloomy male in new robes (6) |
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| Endless support in part that is gloomy (6) |
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| Gloomy, melancholy (6) |
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| Melancholy, dismal (6) |
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| Melancholy |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Oct 2024 |
| Oppressively solemn (6) |
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| The dismal look of the sombrero |
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| Dismal |
Mirror Classic |
22 Aug 2024 |
| Dark and gloomy when doctor's in tender spot (6) |
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| Gloomy doctor put in a sensitive spot |
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| Dark or dull (6) |
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| Lacking brightness or colour |
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| Dark, gloomy (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
07 May 2024 |
| Funereal, dark |
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| Dark and small Iberian chap covering face |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Serious doctor injected into wound (6) |
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| Boil lanced by doctor is serious (6) |
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| Dark part of a Mexican hat (6) |
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| Unsmiling doctor probing painful place on the body (6) |
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| With a sombrero, most look melancholy! |
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| Serious chap from Spain disposes of heroin for son |
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| Serious chap from Spain disposes of heroin for son |
The Guardian Quiptic |
13 Dec 2021 |
| Serious wound is plugged by doctor |
The Telegraph Toughie |
02 Jun 2021 |
| Rose rambling over doctor's grave |
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| With new leader, man becomes sad |
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| Most of broad hat is dark |
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| Dark, dull |
The Times Concise |
19 Jun 2020 |
| Bury unevenly in a little grave |
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| Grey hat tipped or removed |
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| Son's card game is gloomy |
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| Gloomy brother in certain unspecified surroundings |
The Times Cryptic |
11 Apr 2017 |
| Gloomy brother in certain unspecified surroundings |
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| Dark hansom breaches walls |
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| Gloomy American's angry about graduate physician |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Nov 2016 |
| Gloomy |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Nov 2016 |
| Dour doctor probing inflammation |
The Times Cryptic |
03 Apr 2015 |
| Melancholy |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Feb 2015 |
| Dim doctor lancing boil perhaps |
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| melancholy |
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| Gloomy, in Gloucester |
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| Funereal, in Folkestone |
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| Gloomy in Glouster |
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| Melancholy, British style |
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| Dismal. |
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| Gloomy. |
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| Grave. |
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| Melancholy. |
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| Without light or brightness. |
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