Related Clues:

• Part of screed is malicious, dreary
• Sad face, taking in storm on vacation
• Gloomy face, bored by second minute
• Serious doctor absorbed by wound?
• Odd about the Bluegrass State being dark and gloomy
• “She had the ____ precocity of poverty” (Thackeray, describing Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair)
• Very far from fine
• Very dreary
• Most of broad hat is dark
• With new leader, man becomes sad
• Grim and unhappy maids facing student
• Like many minor-key compositions
• Miserable face sergeant-major wears
• Rose rambling over doctor's grave
• Serious wound is plugged by doctor