| SLOUGHOFDESPOND | State of hopeless depression from allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (6,2,7) |
| ATROCKBOTTOM | In a state of hopeless despair (2,4,6) |
| BUNYAN | John -; author of the 1678 allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (6) |
| JOHNBUNYAN | Author of 1678 Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (4,6) |
| GIANTDESPAIR | Owner of Doubting Castle in John Bunyan allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (5,7) |
| DESPAIR | Giant ____, owner of Doubting Castle in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (7) |
| DUNBAR | Which Scottish poet at the court of James IV wrote the political allegory The Thistle and the Rose ( |
| MOOD | Depression from twist of fate (4) |
| LONELINESS | Depression from lack of company |
| DENTISTS | Sits round after depression from professionals doing teeth |
| BLUES | Depression from Memphis music and rhythm's partner (5) |
| SPENSER | English poet whose epic allegory The Faerie Queene celebrates the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I (7) |
| DOTING | Too fond of hopeless tin god (6) |
| LOSTCAUSES | Outclasses all kinds of hopeless cases (4,6) |
| TORPEDO | Wreck business with introduction of hopeless rep |
| HYBRID | Cross faces of hopeless young businessmen rolling in debt (6) |
| BLEAT | Time for conclusion of hopeless complaint |
| INTHEDARK | Editing ad, rethink location of hopeless shot? |
| AGES | "Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, - of hopeless end." Milton, Paradise Lost (4) |
| DENT | A depression from olden times |
