Related Clues:

• Lacking mirth
• Like McCullers' café
• Lacking joy
• Teary-eyed, perhaps
• Work with crayons
• Needing a hug, maybe
• Unlike a good excuse
• Some of this may be picked up at a beach
• Walnut, e.g.
• In need of heartening
• Tear-jerking
• Replete with regret
• Kind of commentator
• Thoroughly blue
• Tearjerking