Related Clues:

• Needing buoying
• Lacking mirth
• Far from colorful
• Like McCullers' café
• Faded and dull
• Far from flashy
• Of a period that ends in 39-down
• Lacking in color
• Lacking joy
• Teary-eyed, perhaps
• Pertaining to the weeks before Easter
• Dull, as a color
• Dull and uninteresting
• Needing a hug, maybe
• Dull-colored, or just plain dull