Historical clue formulations

• Blue state? — 2026-07-20
• Deep sorrow — 2026-06-09
• Anguish — 2026-05-25
• Trouble — 2026-01-18
• Misfortune — 2026-01-05
• Tribulation — 2025-11-16
• "___ is me!" — 2025-08-18
• Trouble — 2025-03-09
• "___ is me!" — 2025-02-24
• "Wednesday's child is full of ___" (nursery rhyme line) — 2024-10-15
• Heartache — 2024-08-22
• Misfortune — 2024-04-25
• Deep sorrow — 2024-01-01
• Deep grief — 2023-11-14
• Deep sorrow — 2023-06-26
• Affliction — 2023-03-24
• Trouble — 2023-03-10
• Deep grief — 2022-11-30
• Grief-stricken state — 2022-10-19
• Sorrow — 2022-03-02
• "The sweetest joy, the wildest ___ is love": Pearl Bailey — 2022-01-13
• Wretchedness — 2021-10-30
• What "vey" of "Oy, vey!" translates to — 2021-09-12
• Grief — 2021-07-29
• Ill — 2021-06-23
• "___ unto them that call evil good, and good evil": Isaiah — 2020-11-16
• Tribulation — 2020-11-09
• Trial — 2020-11-08
• Heartbreak — 2020-11-01
• Sorrow — 2020-09-01
• Tale of ___ — 2020-08-24
• "___ is me!" — 2020-08-11
• Heartache — 2020-07-03
• Great distress — 2020-03-18
• Down state? — 2020-02-29
• Trouble — 2019-10-31
• Misfortune — 2019-10-09
• "___ is me!" — 2019-04-21
• Job experience? — 2019-03-16
• "O, ___ the day!" (exclamation from Miranda in "The Tempest") — 2017-07-28
• Hand-wringer's emotion — 2017-05-17
• "___ is me!" — 2017-04-24
• Poverty, e.g. — 2017-03-05
• Blue state? — 2016-01-07
• Hand-wringer's word — 2015-09-02
• Misfortune — 2015-08-10
• Cause of dejection — 2015-06-27
• Sorrow — 2015-04-20
• Trouble — 2015-03-24
• "___ is me!" — 2015-03-09