Pities suspect caught embracing girl that's upset and gloomy (11)
I believe the answer is:
pessimistic
'gloomy' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'pities suspect caught embracing girl that's upset' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'caught' could be 'c' (cricket abbreviation) and 'c' is located in the answer.
'girl' could be 'misti' and 'misti' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pessimistic that I've seen before include "Tending to look on the dark side of things" , "Hopeless!" , "Looking on the black side" , "Looking on the dark side" , "Lacking hope for the future" .)