Solutions Bleak has 5 entries with similar clues

• 3-letter words
• ada... Clare: (character in Dickens' "Bleak House")
• 5-letter words
• fableout of a bleak setting, comes one of aesop's
• 6-letter words
• esther........ summerson, heroine of charles dickens' novel bleak house
• 9-letter words
• midwinterBleakest time of year
• 12-letter words
• andrewdaviesBritish author and screenwriter whose TV adaptations include Pride and Prejudice , Bleak House and Little Dorrit