Answer:

bleak

Answer	Crossword Clue
BLEAK	Hopeless
BLEAK	.. House (Dickens)
BLEAK	Far from comforting

BLEAK	Discouraging
BLEAK	Like a wasteland
BLEAK	Just about hopeless
BLEAK	Dickens's "... House"
BLEAK	Dreary
BLEAK	Like the tundra
BLEAK	Cheerless
BLEAK	Far from promising

BLEAK	Grim
BLEAK	Not promising
BLEAK	Rather hopeless
BLEAK	Far from optimistic
BLEAK	Not very promising
BLEAK	Dismal
BLEAK	Cheerless.
BLEAK	Desolate and windswept.

BLEAK	Desolate.
BLEAK	Dickens "House."
BLEAK	Swept by cold winds.
BLEAK	Lacking kindliness.
BLEAK	Stark; barren; dreary
BLEAK	"... House": Dickens
BLEAK	Dispiriting
BLEAK	Not rosy

BLEAK	Like some prospects
BLEAK	Unpromising
BLEAK	Opposite of rosy
BLEAK	Dickens' "... House"
BLEAK	Not at all promising
BLEAK	Like film noir
BLEAK	Hardly promising
BLEAK	Desolate and dreary

BLEAK	Dim or grim

Crossword

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