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Depression gets you break from work Crossword Clue

Last seen in: The Telegraph Cryptic · 2026-10-22

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(noun)

  1. a pause from doing something (as work)
  2. an enclosure that is set back or indented
  3. an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
  4. a small concavity
  5. a state of abeyance or suspended business

(verb)

  1. close at the end of a session
  2. make a recess in
  3. put into a recess

(noun)

  1. pushing down
  2. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  3. a sunken or depressed geological formation
  4. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  5. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
  6. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
  7. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
  8. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
  9. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
  10. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

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    Depression gets you break from work (6)

    The Telegraph Cryptic · Oct 22, 2026

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