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Reduce Applause To Head Causing Gloom Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is CHEERLESSNESS which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: CHEERLESSNESS

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noun

• a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness

50%15Applause, applause, applause
noun

• enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)

34%10 Slump causing gloom
noun

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down

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The Guardian Cryptic13 Dec 2001 Across 17
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