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
• Feeling unhappy
• Opposite of happy
• Blue pole with notice attached
• Gloomy (3)
• Heart-wrenching
• Trump tweet ender, often
• Definitely not happy
• Rolling Stones: "___ Day"
• Unhappy Pearl Jam song?
• Eyes, to Bee Gees
• Songs that "Say So Much," to Elton
• "Eyes" to Robert John
• Ballads, sometimes
• Unhappy Pearl Jam "Lost Dogs" track?
• Repeated word in Stones "Steel Wheels" opener
• Robert John "___ eyes, turn the other way"
• Elvis "Don't look so ___, I know it's over"
• The German returns depressed
• Sorry Sadie's lost, that is
• It's a pity, that is, Sadie's lost
• The sun now is low
• Sorry the cake was a failure
• A small puff - blue
• Sorry about the failed cake
• "Blue", said I, "is out"
• Unhappy in serious adversity
• Down, say
• The German's backed down
• Last word of many a Trump tweet
• In need of cheering up
• Adjective for a sack?
• Description of a certain Facebook reaction
• Heart-rending
• Dismal
• Blue pills a doctor provides
• Son, notice, is upset
• Requiring consolation
• Like this emoticon: :-(
• Sorry about the dud cake
• Sorry to separate father and daughter in California
• Ready to cry
• Down at the bottom of the class, nowadays
• Said I had gone down
• Down emotionally
• Keening, perhaps
• Blue movies a director conceals
• Sorry to have to dash back, breathless
• Pitiable as some narcotics addicts
• Feeling mopy
• Blue pills a doctor might provide
• Feeling gloomy
• Dashed halfway back when dejected
• Sorry to have said I'm out
• Down or blue
• Frowny-faced
• Sorry to come between dad and Ena, somewhere
• Not happy at all
• In need of comforting
• Hapless
• Hard to watch
• Sorry the cake's flunked
• Feeling :-(
• Unhappy start to song and dance
• Like a tearful emoji
• Sorry about the cake?
• Pathetic, as an excuse
• Feeling sorrow
• Too bad
• Pity around the dud cake
• Reported I had got in, in need of a lift
• Sorry to get out of Pasadena
• Like a sob story
• The so-called "winter blues," for short
• Really bummed
• Sorry for Sadie's loss, that is
• Using the “pensive face” emoji, say
• "You hate to see it"
• Having the blues
• When I entered, spoke low
• A disappointment
• Feeling glum
• In a sorry state
• Like this: :(
• Sorry about the school head getting notice
• Kind of tale or fate
• Low-spirited
• On the verge of tears
• Quite unhappy
• Feeling sorrowful
• Showing signs of tear?
• In need of a lift?
• Sorry a girl's lost, that is
• Feeling like :-(
• Heartbreaking
• Like this emoticon: :(
• Like the blue emotion in "Inside Out"
• Feeling :(
• Needing a big lift
• Tragic
• "Everything ___ is Untrue"
• Needing cheering up
• U-turn from joyful
• Like a tear-jerker
• In need of perking up
• "A pity"
• Feeling like this: :(
• Word before case or sack
• Hurl, say
• Sorry about the cake
• U-turn from happy
• Sorry, that is, to leave Sadie
• A small notice in blue
• In serious adversity, not happy
• ___ trombone
• Reputed, when I left, to be unhappy
• Like tearjerkers
• Feeling down in the dumps
• Like this face :(
• Like a kid who lost her doll
• Happy? No, unfortunately
• Like much of Lana Del Rey's music
• Feeling like Eeyore
• Teary, maybe
• Unhappy 16-Across
• In a crying mood
• Sorry about that cake
• Happy? No, not right
• Tearing up, perhaps
• Texting :-(, perhaps
• A long way from happy
• Broken up over a breakup, say
• :(
• Grim
• Like a texter who sends a crying emoji
• Sorry about the misprinted ads
• How unhappy are the half of us half dead!
• "That's very unfortunate"
• Grievous
• Like lyrics full of heartache
• Lachrymose