Related Clues:

• Morose, sour
• Grumpy, resentful
• Cross this in the manner of aknight, perhaps, by the sound of it
• Too bad the old man is standing on his head!
• What a pity that this could be Jewish, d'you see, by the sound of it
• Can this, being so forbidding, be so frank?
• Your old man is up and it's got him down
• So Father has come back, somewhat depressed
• Thus the old city has nothing sweet for us at last
• Go to bed in the sea in a gloomy sort of way
• Not happy to have given a start to 22 across
• It needs a bend in the inside to make this so gloomy
• It's the old man's turn not to be in good spirits
• Your old man is not pleased to be up here
• This, you see, sounds Jewish