Despondency (8)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">despondency</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for gloom that I've seen before include "Betting figures" , "Cloudiness" , "Obscurity or melancholy" , "Murk" , "Melancholy state" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">despondency</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(thesaurus)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for misery that I've seen before include "Extreme unhappiness" , "Woe, wretchedness" , "Party-pooper" , "Great suffering" , "Torment" .)
(Other definitions for doldrums that I've seen before include "Belt of calms and unpredictable weather in equatorial seas" , "still under canvas here" , "Belt of calm where winds from the northern and southern hemispheres come together" , "Depressed state - area around the Equator" , "Area of calms between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific" .)