Related Clues:

• 'Gloomy, grim (6)'
• 'Depressing, grim (6)'
• 'Sullen, sour (4)'
• Morose, sour
• Can this, being so forbidding, be so frank?
• It's silly the way one tries to get about a ripe twist
• Still firm and set over the day?
• In the face of it, the sorrowful manuscript comes back
• The manuscript turns up in the sad face of it
• Do the old city in a forbidding sort of way
• Do go over the grim old city
• The way to do the forbidding old city
• Dial about Ms, sad to say
• Depressing, grim
• Feeling glum