The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GLUM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result GLUM
- Litre in tankard to pick up and down
- Stick around lake, being down in the dumps
- Stick with left internally disheartened
- Blue left in stick
- Fifty boards to stick down
- Downhearted atomic company, American, kicked out of 9
- Gollum losing ring left sad
- Gollum losing ring alongside lake becoming sad.
- Fifty stick around, looking far from pleased
- Frodo’s rival loses ring, gets disheartened, becomes sad
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What does GLUM mean?
GLUM adjective- Despondent; moody; sullen
- Sullenness
- To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.