Related Clues:

• Cold and raw fish
• Left inside, Bill is dismal
• Novel house, but starting to let rain in
• Catch plague? That's bleak!
• Succeed with effort that's not so warm
• Succeed with attempt to set out, turning about in burst of sleet?
• Book by Dickens
• Exposed and barren
• Cold and desolate
• Desolate and barren
• (Of weather) cheerless
• Exposed to the elements
• Bill swallows port from inhospitable area lacking vegetation
• Go by land, getting cold
• Not very promising