Historical clue formulations

• "It's a shame, really!" — 2026-07-20
• Feel sorry for — 2025-10-06
• Feel for — 2022-08-04
• Ache for, in a way — 2022-06-11
• ___ party — 2022-01-21
• Feel sorry for — 2021-07-12
• See 35-Across — 2021-06-27
• Feel for — 2021-01-15
• ___ party — 2020-03-12
• "Alas!" — 2020-01-07
• "What a ___" — 2019-04-26
• "Too bad!" — 2018-09-19
• Opposite of schadenfreude — 2017-09-23
• Shame — 2016-11-20
• "What a ___!" ("Too bad!") — 2016-10-04
• Regrettable situation — 2015-10-02
• It may be "aw"-inspiring — 2013-08-15
• Unfortunate circumstance — 2010-12-08
• "The scavenger of misery," per Shaw — 2010-08-01
• Opposite of schadenfreude — 2010-04-30
• "A woman's ___ often opens the door to love": Henry Ward Beecher — 2009-12-20
• "___ makes suffering contagious": Nietzsche — 2008-05-03
• Unfortunate development — 2008-03-30
• Terrible shame — 2007-04-01
• Compassion — 2006-10-26
• Compassion — 2006-09-20
• "What a shame" — 2004-04-15
• Compassion — 2003-10-07
• Wistful comment, after "a" — 2003-08-24
• Bleed for — 2003-02-13
• Feel sorry for — 2001-11-26
• Feel sorry for — 1999-06-15
• Ruefulness — 1999-02-24
• Feeling for the unfortunate — 1998-08-31
• Feel sorry for — 1996-06-10
• Compassion — 1995-12-20