% replaces any number of letters (la% - lake, lamp)_ replaces one letter (ca_ - car, cat)

Other crossword clues for answer "BLEAK"

BLEAK
Hopeless
__ House (Dickens)
With a bad outlook
Discouraging
Far from comforting
___ House
Desolate
Dickens's "___ House"
Dreary
Like the tundra
Cheerless
Far from promising
Grim
Like a wasteland
Just about hopeless
Not promising
*Dismal
Depressing
Stark
Gloomy
Not optimistic
Rather hopeless
Far from optimistic
Not very promising
Far from rosy
Desolate and windswept.
Dickens "House."
Swept by cold winds.
Lacking kindliness.
Stark; barren; dreary
___ House: Dickens
Dispiriting
Not rosy
Like some prospects
Unpromising
Dim or grim
Cold and miserable
Like the mood fostered by "Waiting for Godot"
Cold and dreary
Look round and round upon this bare ___ plain ... (Charles Dickens)
Not looking good
Dickens' "___ House"
Not at all promising
Far from encouraging
Like film noir
Hardly promising
Desolate and dreary
Hardly hospitable