Bleak
The crossword clue "Bleak" is answered by DREAR, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DREAR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DREAR answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DREAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by DREAR, most used first.
- Gloomy, in poetry - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Gloomy - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
- Bleak, to Blake - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Dismal - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
- Bleak, in verse - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Cheerless - used 7 times, most recently in 2000
- Dismal, to Donne - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Gloomy, poetically - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Gloomy, to poets - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Gloomy, in verse - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Gloomy, to Keats - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
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- Bleak - STARK, used 6 times
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