Answer: SAD
SAD is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 230 times.
Referring Clues:
- Glum
 - Down
 - Long-faced
 - Woeful
 - Blue
 - Lugubrious
 - Not up
 - Deplorable
 - Singing the blues
 - Frowning
 - In low spirits
 - Regrettable
 - Unfortunate
 - Deplorably poor
 - Bummed out
 - Insufficient, as an excuse
 - Dispirited
 - In a funk
 - Woebegone
 - In the doldrums
 - Kind of story
 - Bummed
 - Down in the dumps
 - Jerry Lewis movie "The ___ Sack"
 - Sorry
 - Like some commentary
 - Low
 - Dejected
 - In a blue funk
 - "Mr. Dieingly ___" (1966 Critters hit)
 - Depressing
 - Elegiac
 - Unhappy
 - Needing a lift
 - In need of a lift
 - Mideast's House of ___
 - Moping
 - "___ but true"
 - Inferior, as excuses go
 - In the dumps
 - Needing a 53-Across
 - Needing buoying
 - Wretched
 - Downhearted
 - On the down side?
 - Heavy-hearted
 - Feeling low
 - Like three-hankie movies
 - In need of heartening
 - Feeling blue
 - Chapfallen
 - Downcast
 - Down in the mouth
 - Like an Emmett Kelly expression
 - Disconsolate
 - In mourning
 - Far from cloud nine
 - Far from festive
 - Not even on cloud one
 - Melancholy
 - Poor, as an excuse
 - Teary-eyed, perhaps
 - Pathetic
 - Like keeners
 - Doleful
 - In a blue state
 - Wistful
 - Heartsick
 - God-awful
 - Like a poor excuse
 - Gloomy
 - Deplorably bad
 - Not happy
 - Discouraged
 - Feeling mopey
 - Lacking mirth
 - Sorrowful
 - Like McCullers' café
 - Hangdog
 - Bummed, so to speak
 - Crestfallen
 - Lamentable
 - Cry-worthy
 - Not a happy camper
 - Heavyhearted
 - Requiring three hankies, say
 - Not at all happy
 - Pretty pitiful
 - Morose
 - Far from joyful
 - Melancholic
 - Pensive
 - Like Baker's sack
 - Unlike a good excuse
 - Depressed
 - Replete with regret
 - Cheerless
 - Thoroughly blue
 - Like a tearjerker
 - Hardly happy
 - On the down side
 - Blue, in a way
 - Somber
 - Dark
 - Like some excuses
 - In poor spirits
 - Like may tears
 - Mournful
 - Piteous
 - Funky?
 - Funky
 - Down at the mouth
 - Despondent
 - Feeling down
 - Despond-ent
 - With 41-Across, 1979 Robert John hit song
 - Lacking joy
 - Tearful
 - Like Emmett Kelly's clown face
 - What a texter of ":-(" might be
 - Tear-jerking
 - Pitiful
 - Like slow songs, sometimes
 - Like Eeyore
 - "That's a shame!"
 - Worthy of weeping
 - Plaintive
 - Far from on cloud nine
 - Living in a blue state?
 - Out of spirits
 - Needing cheering
 - Weepy
 - Adjective often before "commentary"
 - Disappointed
 - Full of tears, say
 - Type of ending or sack
 - Poignant
 - Not even on cloud one?
 - Forlorn
 - In a blue mood
 - Like one texting :-(
 - "How ___"
 - Pensive, perhaps
 - In a dismal mood
 - "How pathetic"
 - See 62-Down
 - Sack adjective
 - ___ sack
 - Not exactly doing cartwheels
 - What this means: :-(
 - Beatles title girl
 - Weeping, perhaps
 - Sack in uniform
 - Feeling downcast
 - Teary-eyed
 - Devoid of joy
 - Really poor
 - Like a texter who types ":-("
 - A long way from festive
 - Far from cheerful
 - Quite melancholy
 - Lame
 - Miserable
 - Tearing up, say
 - With 43-Across, tear-jerking tune
 - Bummed or blue
 - Kind of sack
 - Like McCuller's cafe
 - Blew
 - Singing the blues, so to speak
 - Shameful
 - Poor, as excuses go
 - End of many a Trump tweet
 - Disappointing
 - Triste
 - Like this emoticon: :-(
 - Down emotionally
 - Lachrymose
 - Feeling mopy
 - Feeling gloomy
 - Down or blue
 - Frowny-faced
 - In need of comforting
 - Hapless
 - Pathetic, as an excuse
 - Too bad
 - Like a sob story
 - The so-called "winter blues," for short
 - Really bummed
 - "You hate to see it"
 - In need of cheering up
 - Having the blues
 - A disappointment
 - Feeling glum
 - Feeling :-(
 - Like this: :(
 - Kind of tale or fate
 - Low-spirited
 - Feeling sorrowful
 - "Too bad ..."
 - Showing signs of tear?
 - In need of a lift?
 - Like one texting ":-("
 - Feeling like :-(
 - Heartbreaking
 - Feeling :(
 - Tragic
 - "Everything ___ is Untrue"
 - Word before case or sack
 - Hurl, say
 - In need of perking up
 - "A pity"
 - Feeling like this: :(
 - ___ trombone
 - "That's a shame"
 - Like this face :(
 - Feeling down in the dumps
 - Like much of Lana Del Rey's music
 - Like the face of :(
 - Like a tear-jerker
 - Teary, maybe
 - Feeling like this :(
 - Like this emoticon :(
 - Tearing up, perhaps
 - Texting :-(, perhaps
 - Broken up over a breakup, say
 - "Too bad"
 - Like a texter who sends a crying emoji
 - Downtrodden
 - "That's very unfortunate"
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 07, 2025
 - LA Times - September 28, 2025
 - LA Times - September 23, 2025
 - LA Times - September 07, 2025
 - LA Times - August 28, 2025
 - USA Today - August 14, 2025
 - New York Times - July 23, 2025
 - LA Times - July 14, 2025
 - USA Today - July 08, 2025
 - New York Times - July 01, 2025
 - USA Today - June 25, 2025
 - New York Times - June 19, 2025
 - New York Times - June 13, 2025
 - USA Today - May 19, 2025
 - New York Times - May 08, 2025
 - USA Today - May 05, 2025
 - New York Times - April 19, 2025
 - LA Times - April 09, 2025
 - New York Times - April 01, 2025
 - USA Today - April 01, 2025
 
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