| In need of a lift | 17 |
| In low spirits | 14 |
| Melancholic | 11 |
| Like McCullers' café | 27 |
| In need of heartening | 21 |
| In a blue state | 15 |
| God-awful | 9 |
| Frowning | 8 |
| Disappointed | 12 |
| Triste | 6 |
| Thoroughly blue | 15 |
| Tear-jerking | 12 |
| Sack in uniform | 15 |
| Requiring three hankies, say | 28 |
| Replete with regret | 19 |
| Pitiable | 8 |
| Needing cheering | 16 |
| Like Niobe | 10 |
| Like may tears | 14 |
| Like Emmett Kelly's clown face | 34 |
| Lacking joy | 11 |
| Kind of sack or iron | 20 |
| Insufficient, as an excuse | 26 |
| Inferior, as excuses go | 23 |
| Heart-wrenching | 15 |
| Feeling mopey | 13 |
| Far from joyful | 15 |
| Far from cloud nine | 19 |
| Deplorably bad | 14 |
| Cry-worthy | 10 |
| Adjective for a sack? | 21 |
| "___ but true" | 24 |
| Worthy of weeping | 17 |
| What a texter of ":-(" might be | 41 |
| Unlike a good excuse | 20 |
| Unhappy Pearl Jam song? | 23 |
| Unhappy Pearl Jam "Lost Dogs" track? | 46 |
| Type of ending or sack | 22 |
| Teary-eyed, perhaps | 19 |
| Tearful perhaps | 16 |
| Sort of sack | 12 |
| Songs that "Say So Much," to Elton | 44 |
| Sack or iron | 12 |
| Sack of a kind | 14 |
| Sack adjective | 14 |
| Rolling Stones: "___ Day" | 35 |
| Robert John "___ eyes, turn the other way" | 52 |
| Repeated word in Stones "Steel Wheels" opener | 55 |
| Piteous | 7 |
| Pensive, perhaps | 16 |
| Out of spirits | 14 |
| On the down side | 16 |
| Not even on cloud one? | 22 |
| Moping | 6 |
| Mideast's House of ___ | 26 |
| Living in a blue state? | 23 |
| Like some commentary | 20 |
| Like slow songs, sometimes | 26 |
| Like one texting :-( | 20 |
| Like McCullers's "Café" | 40 |
| Like McCuller's cafe | 24 |
| Like many a weepie's ending | 31 |
| Like keeners | 12 |
| Like Eeyore | 11 |
| Like Baker's sack | 21 |
| Like Baker's "Sack" | 33 |
| Like an Emmett Kelly face | 25 |
| Like an elegy | 13 |
| Like a losing bettor | 20 |
| Lacking mirth | 13 |
| Kind of news or iron | 20 |
| Jerry Lewis movie "The ___ Sack" | 42 |
| Inferior, as an excuse | 22 |
| Inadequate, as an excuse | 24 |
| In a blue mood | 14 |
| In a blue funk, e.g. | 20 |
| Heavyhearted | 12 |
| Full of tears, say | 18 |
| Feeling low | 11 |
| Far from on cloud nine | 22 |
| Eyes, to Bee Gees | 17 |
| Dumpish | 7 |
| Down, so to speak | 17 |
| Deplorably poor | 15 |
| Certain sack | 12 |
| Bummed, so to speak | 19 |
| Bummed, say | 11 |
| Ballads, sometimes | 18 |
| Badly worn | 10 |
| Antithesis of gleeful | 21 |
| Adjective often before "commentary" | 45 |
| Adjective for McCullers's cafe | 34 |
| "The ___ Sack" (W.W. II cartoon) | 42 |
| "Mr. Dieingly ___" (1966 Critters hit) | 48 |
| "How ___" | 19 |
| "Eyes" to Robert John | 31 |
| "Ballad of the ___ Cafe" | 34 |
| Thompson of "Family" | 30 |
| Emmy-winning Thompson | 21 |
| Actress Thompson of "Family" | 38 |