Cheerless (4)

(Other definitions for drear that I've seen before include "Poetic dull and uninteresting" , "Grim" , "Depressingly dull" , "Cheerless (literary)" , "Dull, bleak, depressing" .)

(Other definitions for magpie that I've seen before include "'One is for sorrow, two for joy (6)'" , "Black and white bird, known as thieving" , "One on target" , "A black-and-white thieving bird" , "said to bring sorrow" .)

(Other definitions for gloomy that I've seen before include "Dark - dim" , "Depressingly dark" , "Dim - pessimistic" , "Dismal - despondent" , "Sombre" .)

(Other definitions for craven that I've seen before include "Chicken" , "Chicken-hearted" , "Mean-spirited" , "Without backbone" , "Cowardly, abjectly afraid" .)

(Other definitions for dreary that I've seen before include "Gloomy and dismal" , "Dull, tedious" , "Cheerless and depressing" , "Gloomy - dull" , "Gloomy, boring" .)

(Other definitions for dismal that I've seen before include "Wretched" , "Gloomy and depressing like winter weather" , "black and > blue" , "Gloomy, bleak" , "Showing gloom, dreary" .)

(Other definitions for drongo that I've seen before include "Australian fool - Gordon (anag)" , "Long-tailed songbird" , "Bird - Aussie fool - Gordon (anag)" , "Bird -- idiot (in Australia)" , "dope" .)

(Other definitions for chough that I've seen before include "singer" , "Black bird on Cornish coat of arms" , "Bird of the crow family" , "Crow-like bird of cliffs and mountains" .)

(Another definition for ravens that I've seen is " Large black birds".)

(Other definitions for grim that I've seen before include "Severe; horrible" , "Dark, depressing" , "Tight-lipped and foreboding" , "Serious, forbidding" , "Harsh and merciless" .)