Historical clue formulations

• "What a pity!" — 2026-07-15
• "___, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio" — 2026-06-16
• Lead-in to "poor Yorick!" — 2026-05-12
• Cry often accompanied by a sigh — 2026-05-03
• "Sorry to say …" — 2026-03-01
• "Oh, cruel fate!" — 2026-02-08
• "That's a real shame" — 2025-12-17
• [Sigh] — 2025-11-26
• "Sad to say …" — 2025-09-12
• "___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!": "Romeo and Juliet" — 2025-09-04
• "I'm afraid ..." — 2025-08-30
• "Ah, such is life!" — 2025-07-22
• "Sadly …" — 2025-05-18
• "Woe is me!" — 2024-11-24
• "Sadly …" — 2024-09-30
• "Stuff happens" — 2024-09-21
• "It's too bad, but …" — 2024-09-01
• Lead-in to bad news — 2024-06-09
• "Too bad!" — 2024-06-06
• "What a pity" — 2024-05-20
• Lead-in to bad news — 2024-05-04
• Word expressing woe — 2024-04-15
• Sighed aside — 2024-03-20
• "Unfortunately …" — 2024-03-18
• "Sorry to say …" — 2023-11-12
• Word of woe — 2023-09-17
• "Ah, so it goes" — 2023-08-23
• Lead-in to disappointing news — 2023-06-05
• "___, poor Yorick!": Shak. — 2023-05-29
• "What a pity!" — 2023-04-09
• Word of woe — 2023-01-14
• "Sad to say" — 2022-12-09
• "Too bad, so sad!" — 2022-09-26
• [Sigh] — 2022-09-15
• *Portrayer of Scrooge in 1951's "A Christmas Carol" — 2022-09-04
• "So it goes" — 2022-08-28
• "___ the day!" (exclamation from "Twelfth Night") — 2022-08-27
• "Ah, me!" — 2022-07-13
• [sigh] — 2022-06-05
• Lead-in to some regrets — 2022-02-18
• Word of regret — 2022-02-11
• [sigh] — 2022-02-08
• Regrettably — 2022-01-22
• [Sigh] — 2022-01-13
• "___ poor Romeo!": Shak. — 2021-12-24
• Cry of pity — 2021-12-20
• "So it goes" — 2021-10-20
• Exclamation after a sigh — 2021-08-01
• "So sad" — 2021-06-22
• "Sadly ..." — 2021-03-15