Historical clue formulations

• Torment — 2026-06-26
• Extreme pain — 2025-03-02
• Serious suffering — 2024-10-13
• Ecstasy's opposite — 2024-02-27
• "The thrill of victory … and the ___ of defeat" ("Wide World of Sports" catchphrase) — 2023-08-27
• "The ___ and the Ecstasy" (biographical novel about Michelangelo) — 2023-05-30
• Intense suffering — 2023-03-14
• Extreme pain — 2021-02-22
• Sitting next to a constantly crying baby on a cross-country flight, maybe — 2020-06-12
• Torment — 2018-11-25
• What waiting for overdue results can be — 2018-03-27
• Having one's wisdom teeth pulled, e.g. — 2017-05-24
• Torment — 2017-05-06
• Ecstasy's opposite — 2017-03-01
• Excruciating pain — 2017-02-20
• State nobody wants to live in — 2016-12-21
• Hell — 2015-11-28
• Hell — 2015-08-13
• Waiting, for the impatient, say — 2014-05-22
• Hellish suffering — 2013-10-28
• You suffer when you're in it — 2013-09-15
• Torture — 2013-04-21
• Anguish — 2011-04-07
• Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods" — 2010-03-26
• "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you": Maya Angelou — 2010-02-21
• Excruciating pain — 2009-11-10
• Awful struggle — 2009-10-09
• Unending pain — 2008-01-02
• Intense pain — 2007-11-27
• Torment — 2006-08-18
• A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe — 2004-12-28
• Suffering — 2004-10-27
• Intense suffering — 2003-08-19
• Violent struggle — 2001-08-30
• Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g. — 2000-12-03
• Prolonged pain — 1998-09-23
• It hurts — 1998-05-05
• Kind of column — 1996-11-01
• Ecstasy's opposite — 1996-06-17
• Suffering — 1995-04-12
• Throes and woes — 1994-12-07