The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word DEPRESSED
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More clues leading to the result DEPRESSED
- Document about papers under paperweight?
- Extremely desperate newspaper editor is despondent
- Prepared to take exercise on the way up and down
- Enduring blues performance, crowd confined
- Down with legal document constraining journalists
- Letters on keyboard can be low
- Act to hold newspapers down
- Journalists breaking achievement down
- Poverty-stricken doing without jam
- Put down action restricting newspapers
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The straight part
We know that "down" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case down = depressed.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does DEPRESSED mean?
DEPRESSED verb- To press down.
- To make depressed, sad or bored.
- To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
- To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
- To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
- Unhappy; despondent
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.