Historical clue formulations

• Grim — 2024-03-03
• Like the mood fostered by "Waiting for Godot" — 2022-09-30
• Cold and miserable — 2022-01-21
• Dickens's "___ House" — 2020-12-07
• Dim or grim — 2017-04-15
• Dickens's "___ House" — 2017-02-27
• Discouraging — 2009-03-27
• Unpromising — 2006-09-21
• Dickens's "___ House" — 2005-11-08
• Just about hopeless — 2004-12-26
• Unpromising — 2003-06-10
• Cheerless — 2001-02-06
• Not promising — 2000-12-07
• Like some prospects — 1999-08-14
• Not rosy — 1996-06-27