Answer: GRIM
GRIM is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 56 times.
Referring Clues:
- Bleak
 - Dismal
 - Hardly rosy
 - Bad, as a prognosis
 - Unsmiling
 - Gloomy
 - Looking down
 - The ___ Reaper
 - Somber
 - Forbidding
 - Hardly cheerful
 - Black
 - Not bright
 - Like reality, at times
 - Pretty hopeless
 - Far from promising
 - Pessimistic
 - Like the Reaper
 - Harsh
 - Affording no hope
 - Dreadful
 - Like a feared reaper
 - Hardly hopeful
 - Dark, as prospects
 - Dour
 - Ghastly
 - Stern
 - Stern
 - Stern
 - Filled with gloom
 - Cheerless
 - Unpleasant
 - Serious-looking
 - Like a certain reaper
 - Hardly upbeat
 - Bad
 - Not at all pleasant
 - On the dark side
 - Far from rosy
 - Not looking good
 - Lacking mirth
 - Very gloomy
 - Not too rosy, as an outlook
 - Far from sanguine
 - Desolate
 - Not looking good at all
 - Uncompromising
 - Ominous
 - Far from optimistic
 - Dire
 - Frightful
 - Hardly promising
 - Worrisome, as news
 - Godawful
 - Gloomy, as news
 - Mirthless
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 10, 2025
 - LA Times - September 16, 2025
 - New York Times - March 17, 2025
 - LA Times - January 10, 2025
 - LA Times - October 10, 2024
 - LA Times - May 11, 2024
 - New York Times - October 20, 2023
 - New York Times - November 18, 2022
 - LA Times - October 15, 2022
 - New York Times - August 07, 2022
 - LA Times - April 30, 2022
 - New York Times - April 05, 2021
 - LA Times - April 03, 2021
 - Netword - December 11, 2020
 - USA Today - August 28, 2020
 - USA Today - July 29, 2020
 - Netword - April 29, 2020
 - LA Times - September 30, 2019
 - Universal - May 25, 2019
 - LA Times - December 05, 2018
 
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