The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SATURNINE
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More clues leading to the result SATURNINE
- Function hosting a performance offering little amusement
- With sound outside, one overcome by fright in dark
- Desolate nature’s in evolution
- Gloomy, beset by raging sea, surrender
- Miserable function a performer gate-crashes
- It’s disturbing – unrest in a grave
- Chiefly sad or solemn in nature perhaps?
- Vase held by sculpted saint seen on top of Elgar’s grave
- Placed vase in Earl’s grave
- Placed vase containing ashes in Eastern grave
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What does SATURNINE mean?
SATURNINE adjective- Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.
- Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
- Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).
- Of a disease: caused by lead poisoning (saturnism); of a person: affected by lead poisoning.
- Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).