The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BLUER
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More clues leading to the result BLUER
- Sky thus clearer, as university sportsman runs
- Smear around ultramarine, finally – that’s more like it?
- Breathed a sound, getting more despondent
- Group popular in the Nineties touring East being less happy
- Sadder rock group without energy
- Having little internal energy pop group is less happy
- Confusion after snorting drug, getting more miserable
- At first Bangalore rule is broken ... is more sad
- Further down, confusion about last clue
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The straight part
We know that "is more sad" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case is more sad = bluer.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BLUER mean?
BLUER adjective- Of the colour blue.
- Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
- Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
- Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
- (of women) literary; bluestockinged.
- Having a color charge of blue.
- (entertainment) Risque or obscene
- A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- Blue clothing
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- A member of law enforcement
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- A bluefish.
- An argument.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- A type of firecracker.
- A bluestocking.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.