| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SULKING | Brooding | |
| ABROOD | In the act of brooding. | |
| MOROSE | Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. | |
| ODIN | Norse god found amongst brooding characters | |
| CLUCKING | The noise or call of a brooding hen. | |
| SITTING | A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. | |
| CLUCK | To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. | |
| MELANCHOLIA | A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas. | |
| INCUBATION | A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. | |
| SUBJECTIVE | ...ward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states. ... | |
| BROOD | ...and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. ... | |