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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

DIM
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

4 letters

EVIL
Morally objectionable behavior

DRAB
A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

GRIM
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

BLUE
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"

GLUM
Moody and melancholic

DOUR
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

SOUR
Having a sharp biting taste

AGES

EBON
Of a very dark black

ARTS
Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"

5 letters

MURKY
Dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps"

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

DINGY
Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

SORRY
Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

BLACK
(board games) the darker pieces

DREAR
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

DUSKY
Lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

UNLIT
Without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"

NIGHT
A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

6 letters

UNFAIR
Not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

DREARY
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

GLOOMY
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

SHADOW
Something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

DISMAL
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

MOROSE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

SOMBRE
Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

OPAQUE
Not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"

SULLEN
Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

7 letters

SWARTHY
Naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic"

SHADOWY
Filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"

MACABRE
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

OBSCURE
Reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

COLORED
A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

SUNLESS
Filled or abounding with clouds

8 letters

SINISTER
On or starting from the wearer's left; "bar sinister"

DARKNESS
A swarthy complexion

COLOURED
Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

NONWHITE

INIQUITY
Morally objectionable behavior

OVERCAST
A cast that falls beyond the intended spot

STARLESS
Not starry; having no stars or starlike objects; "dark starless nights"

9 letters

NIGHTFALL
The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

CHEERLESS
Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

GLOWERING
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

BENIGHTED
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"

SATURNINE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

NIGHTTIME
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

10 letters

WICKEDNESS
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us"

FOREBODING
An unfavorable omen

FORBIDDING
An official prohibition or edict against something

11 letters

DARKSKINNED

12 letters

DISCONSOLATE
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

13 letters

UNILLUMINATED
Without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"