Gloomy tune
The crossword clue "Gloomy tune" is answered by DIRGE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DIRGE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DIRGE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Every other clue in this collection answered by DIRGE, most used first.
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Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
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