Historical clue formulations

• "I'm in such a fix" — 2026-05-03
• "Alas …" — 2025-03-30
• Expression of lamentation — 2024-07-13
• "Alas!" — 2024-04-19
• "Alas!'" — 2023-12-09
• Lamenting words — 2023-10-20
• Self-pitier's remark — 2023-04-07
• "Alas!" — 2023-02-06
• Sighed words — 2022-09-28
• "Alas!" — 2022-07-03
• Words said with a sigh — 2021-10-21
• Melodramatic cry — 2021-08-03
• "Alas!" — 2018-09-02
• Sighed words — 2017-08-23
• Sigher's words — 2017-05-15
• Words said with a sigh — 2015-05-24
• Exclamation that's a homophone of 53-Down — 2014-12-17
• Wistful plaint — 2013-04-20
• "I'm not doing so well" — 2012-12-23
• [sigh] — 2012-11-28
• "Alas!" — 2012-11-05
• "Such is life" — 2011-11-10
• World-weary words — 2009-01-02
• "Oy vey" — 2008-09-09
• "Whatever shall I do?!" — 2008-08-21
• Words of woe — 2008-08-17
• A sigh — 2007-01-26
• Familiar sigh — 2007-01-14
• Woeful words — 2006-10-01
• Comment made with a sigh — 2006-08-02
• "Alas!" — 2006-04-11
• "What is to be done?!" — 2006-01-09
• Sighed words — 2005-09-21
• "Alas!" — 2004-08-26
• Woeful words — 2004-04-22
• "Alas!" — 2003-10-26
• Sighed aside — 2003-08-02
• "Life is hard ..." — 2002-12-23
• Words of wistfulness — 2002-12-12
• [sigh] — 2002-02-15
• "Alas!" — 2000-08-03
• Woeful words — 2000-01-02
• Quaint sigh — 1999-12-16
• [sigh] — 1999-02-21
• Words said with a sigh — 1998-06-04
• Words accompanied by a sigh — 1998-05-13
• "Sigh!" — 1998-01-13
• Sighed line? — 1997-02-28
• "Alas!" — 1997-02-19
• "Alas!" — 1995-11-29