Related Clues:

• Sombre
• Lower, as headlights
• Unskilled
• Lower, as the lights
• Bad thing to sink into
• Darned-if-you-do, darned-if-you-don't
• Low state
• Grim, as a situation
• Like a hopeless situation
• Dusky
• Likely to bumble
• Hopeless, as a situation
• Dickens' ''___ House''
• Like a Catch-22
• Lacking light