The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ELEGIAC
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ELEGIAC
- Sad European stage where you’ll find rabble
- Recalled church keeping fine set of valedictory works
- Upset, this person enters bars lonesome, empty and sad
- Legacies largely corrupt – sad
- Mournful key member CIA outed
- Lamb catches, say, cold, becoming plaintive
- Soldier in middle of foreign field, cold and mournful
- Doleful, the Spanish setter interrupts rising composer
- Upsets Alice, for example, describing poetry
- Sad hesitance regularly envelops cricket side
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The straight part
We know that "Valedictory" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case valedictory = elegiac.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ELEGIAC mean?
ELEGIAC noun- A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
- Of or relating to an elegy.
- Expressing sorrow or mourning.