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The Clue

Glum (5 letter answer)

The Answer

MOODY

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Notes

The answer MOODY is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 650 puzzles.

Related Clues

Brooding
Depressed
Dour
Temperamental
Apt to pout
Given to glumness
Ill-humored
Morose, at times
Famed name in tennis
Living in a swing state?
Not even-tempered
Subject to emotional swings
Tennis great of 1920's and 30's
Mazda Senior Tournament winner: 1989

Definition

MOODY as a noun:

1. (Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills) = United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)
2. (Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody) = United States evangelist (1837-1899)

MOODY as an adjective:

1. (dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen) = 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"
2. (moody, temperamental) = subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"