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Mournful European member with current account (7)

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I believe the answer is:

elegiac

'mournful' is the definition.
(synonym)

'european member with current account' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'member' becomes 'leg' (member can mean a limb).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'account' becomes 'ac' (abbreviation for account).
'e'+'leg'+'i'+'ac'='ELEGIAC'

(Other definitions for elegiac that I've seen before include "Wistful, mournful" , "Expressing poetic sorrow for something past" , "Like classical couplets" , "Wistfully mournful" , "Mournful, lamenting" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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