| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| CHEERLESS | Bleak | |
| BARREN | Bleak | |
| AUSTERE | Bleak | |
| DIM | Bleak | |
| WINTRY | Bleak | |
| SPARTAN | Bleak | |
| WINTERY | Bleak | |
| BLEAKY | Bleak. | |
| DICKENS | Charles, author of Bleak House | |
| BLAY | A fish. See Bleak, n. | |
| LEAKAGE | Bleak agenda hides loss of fluid | |
| DICKENSIAN | Bleak and impoverished - in Bleak House style | |
| ABLEN | A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak. | |
| BLEAK | Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. | |
| RAW | Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind. | |
| INHOSPITABLE | Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. | |
| PEARLFISH | Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait. | |
| ALBURN | The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls. | |
| PARAMO | A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America. | |