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| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, August 21, 2009 | 40A | As bad luck would have it | Patrick Berry |
| Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | 62A | "'Tis a pity" | Patrick Blindauer |
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | 63A | Melodramatic cry | Richard Silvestri |
| Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | 22D | "Sad to say ..." | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| Friday, April 24, 2009 | 22A | "Regrettably ..." | Barry C. Silk |
| Wednesday, April 08, 2009 | 16A | "A pity" | Joey Weissbrot |
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 | 16A | "Such a pity" | Ed Stein and Paula Gamache |
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 | 24D | "___ the day!" (Shakespearean exclamation) | Gary & Stephen Kennedy |
| Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | 56D | "'Tis a pity" | John Underwood |
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 58A | "Oh, woe!" | Tim Wescott |
| Monday, December 22, 2008 | 55A | "Oh, woe!" | Lynn Lempel |
| Thursday, December 11, 2008 | 70A | Comment about a loss | Jim Hilger |
| Sunday, December 07, 2008 | 121A | "___, how love can trifle with itself!": Shak. | Jim Page |
| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | 29D | [sigh] | Kevin G. Der |
| Monday, July 21, 2008 | 41A | "Darn," more formally | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 | 10D | "Sad to say ..." | Harvey Estes |
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 | 43D | "___ the day!" (Shakespearean interjection) | David J. Kahn |
| Monday, February 25, 2008 | 7D | "Ah, me!" | Randall J. Hartman |
| Wednesday, February 06, 2008 | 59D | Word of woe | Larry Shearer |
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 | 64A | "That's a shame" | Adam G. Perl |
| Monday, December 17, 2007 | 7D | "Sad to say ..." | Richard Chisholm |
| Sunday, December 16, 2007 | 21A | "Too bad" | David J. Kahn and Steve Kahn |
| Monday, December 03, 2007 | 1D | Self-pitying cry | Harvey Estes |
| Monday, October 22, 2007 | 64A | "Unfortunately ..." | Lynn Lempel |
| Monday, August 13, 2007 | 1A | "Woe is me!" | Andrew Ries |
| Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | 25A | "Too bad!" | Richard Silvestri |
| Monday, May 21, 2007 | 6D | "___, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio" | Allan E. Parrish |
| Wednesday, April 04, 2007 | 26D | [sigh] | Bette Sue Cohen |
| Monday, January 08, 2007 | 12D | "Oh, woe!" | Harriet Clifton |
| Saturday, November 18, 2006 | 4D | Expression of unhappiness | Victor Fleming |
| Sunday, September 17, 2006 | 45A | "Too bad" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 | 52D | [sigh] | Fred Piscop |
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 | 15A | Word of woe | Peter A. Collins |
| Monday, May 01, 2006 | 57D | "'Tis a shame" | Mike Torch |
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 | 12D | "___ the heavy day!": "Othello" | George Barany and Michael Shteyman |
| Thursday, January 05, 2006 | 4D | "How sad!" | Victor Fleming |
| Monday, November 07, 2005 | 50A | "Too bad!" | Jay Livingston |
| Sunday, August 28, 2005 | 107A | "What a pity!" | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| Monday, August 08, 2005 | 2D | "Too bad!" | Harvey Estes |
| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 | 28D | Resigned remark | Beth Hinshaw |
| Wednesday, May 11, 2005 | 25D | [Sigh] | Kumar Balani and Lou Sabin |
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 | 18D | Sighed cry | Mike Shenk |
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 | 57D | "Woe is me!" | Richard Chisholm |
| Tuesday, November 09, 2004 | 11D | "Sad to say ..." | Robert Dillman |
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 | 1D | [sigh] | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| Friday, September 24, 2004 | 25D | Sad statement | Patrick Berry |
| Friday, July 16, 2004 | 17A | Dejection interjection | Craig Kasper |
| Sunday, June 13, 2004 | 97A | Poetic plaint | Richard Silvestri |
| Thursday, June 10, 2004 | 53D | "___, how love can trifle with itself!": Shak. | Paula Gamache |
| Friday, April 02, 2004 | 32D | Regrettably | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 | 19A | "Ohhhh ..." | Craig Kasper |
| Monday, February 02, 2004 | 17A | "What a shame!" | Gregory E. Paul |
| Monday, January 05, 2004 | 27D | "Oh, woe!" | Allan E. Parrish |
| Friday, December 19, 2003 | 4A | Regrettably | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Monday, October 13, 2003 | 17A | [sigh] | Eric Berlin |
| Wednesday, October 01, 2003 | 1D | "'Tis a pity" | A. J. Santora |
| Thursday, September 11, 2003 | 29D | "C'est la vie" | Patrick Merrell |
| Tuesday, September 09, 2003 | 34D | "Unfortunately ..." | Robert Zimmerman |
| Thursday, May 29, 2003 | 42D | Comment on a loss | Jim Page |
| Thursday, March 20, 2003 | 8D | "Too bad!" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Thursday, February 20, 2003 | 30D | Regrettably | Peter Sarrett |
| Monday, February 10, 2003 | 55D | Word of woe | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| Sunday, January 05, 2003 | 42D | "Sad to say ..." | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | 3D | Word for Yorick | John Underwood |
| Sunday, December 08, 2002 | 104A | Opposite of "Hurray!" | Peter Gordon |
| Sunday, November 17, 2002 | 47A | Pitying cry | Richard and Judith Martin |
| Tuesday, October 29, 2002 | 33A | Resigned remark | Richard Hughes |
| Thursday, October 24, 2002 | 45A | "Too bad" | Patrick Merrell |
| Sunday, October 13, 2002 | 78A | "Sorry to say ..." | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Sunday, September 29, 2002 | 108A | Wistful word | Randolph Ross |
| Tuesday, September 24, 2002 | 45D | "Ah, me!" | Sherry O. Blackard |
| Tuesday, August 27, 2002 | 24A | "Woe is me!" | Denise M. Neuendorf |
| Saturday, July 20, 2002 | 46D | Melodramatic cry | Dana Motley |
| Wednesday, June 12, 2002 | 35A | Sorry to say | Nancy Salomon and Bill Zais |
| Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | 61A | "Ah, me!" | Ed Early |
| Saturday, May 11, 2002 | 33D | "Ohhh" | Mark Diehl |
| Sunday, April 28, 2002 | 53D | "Dear me!" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, March 26, 2002 | 15A | "Oh dear!" | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| Thursday, March 21, 2002 | 55D | "What a pity!" | Patrick Berry |
| Thursday, January 24, 2002 | 7D | Cry after failing | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Monday, November 19, 2001 | 61D | "What a pity!" | Peter Gordon |
| Sunday, November 04, 2001 | 83A | "Oh, my!" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, October 29, 2001 | 34D | It's said with a sigh | Richard Hughes |
| Friday, October 12, 2001 | 7D | "Oh, my!" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Tuesday, June 05, 2001 | 1D | "What a pity!" | Peter Gordon |
| Monday, February 26, 2001 | 36A | "If only things had turned out different!" | Norma Steinberg |
| Sunday, December 31, 2000 | 61D | "Ah, me!" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, December 12, 2000 | 6A | "Woe is me!" | Nick Grivas |
| Thursday, November 30, 2000 | 3D | "Ah, those were the days" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2000 | 60A | Word for Yorick | William A. Ballard |
| Tuesday, July 04, 2000 | 10A | "Woe is me!" | Tyler Hinman |
| Monday, June 12, 2000 | 54D | "What a shame" | Andrea C. Michaels |
| Tuesday, February 22, 2000 | 43A | Word for Yorick | Dorothy E. Donaldson |
| Monday, January 31, 2000 | 4D | [Sigh] | Peter Gordon |
| Wednesday, January 19, 2000 | 46D | "Ah, me!" | Arthur S. Verdesca |
| Wednesday, November 17, 1999 | 69A | Relative of 55-Across | Fred Piscop |
| Sunday, November 14, 1999 | 58A | [Boo-hoo!] | Lloyd E. Pollet |
| Tuesday, November 09, 1999 | 18D | "Poor me!" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Thursday, November 04, 1999 | 28D | "Poor me!" | Matthew Lees |
| Thursday, October 07, 1999 | 57A | "'Tis a pity" | Kelly Clark |
| Tuesday, September 28, 1999 | 21A | "Unfortunately..." | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Sunday, September 26, 1999 | 53D | Word of regret | Randolph Ross |
| Wednesday, July 28, 1999 | 25A | "How awful!" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, May 17, 1999 | 50D | Dramatic wail | Ethan Cooper |
| Thursday, April 29, 1999 | 43D | "Oh dear!" | Adam Cohen |
| Wednesday, March 10, 1999 | 68A | "What a shame!" | Wesley R. Johnson |
| Wednesday, March 03, 1999 | 7D | Woeful word | Rich Norris |
| Friday, January 01, 1999 | 13D | "Wellaway!" updated | Joe DiPietro |
| Tuesday, November 10, 1998 | 23A | "Ah, me!" | Diane C. Baldwin |
| Monday, September 28, 1998 | 29D | "Oh, woe!" | Robert Dillman |
| Monday, August 17, 1998 | 1D | Word of regret | Gregory E. Paul |
| Wednesday, June 10, 1998 | 16A | "Oh, were it not true!" | Nancy S. Ross |
| Thursday, January 29, 1998 | 65A | Word said with a tear | Frances Hansen |
| Wednesday, January 14, 1998 | 64A | Wistful word | William Bernhardt |
| Wednesday, December 10, 1997 | 8D | Cry for what might have been | Jonathan Schmalzbach |
| Thursday, October 23, 1997 | 20A | Wistful word | Frances Hansen |
| Monday, September 15, 1997 | 1D | "Woe is me!" | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| Tuesday, September 09, 1997 | 27D | Word of resignation | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Monday, August 04, 1997 | 36A | Woeful word | Gregory E. Paul |
| Tuesday, July 08, 1997 | 1A | "Woe is me!" | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| Friday, July 04, 1997 | 1A | Word after a loss | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, June 01, 1997 | 58A | Word repeated in "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" | Randolph Ross |
| Wednesday, May 07, 1997 | 17A | "Oh, woe!" | Dean Niles |
| Tuesday, April 08, 1997 | 36D | Griever's exclamation | Fred Piscop |
| Monday, March 10, 1997 | 1A | "Too bad!" | Gregory E. Paul |
| Thursday, February 27, 1997 | 3D | Start of Hamlet's "Yorick" speech | Raymond C. Young |
| Sunday, February 23, 1997 | 62D | "___, 'tis true I have gone here and there": Shak. | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| Monday, February 10, 1997 | 35A | "Woe is me!" | S. Burns |
| Saturday, February 08, 1997 | 21D | "I am miserable" | G. R. Ferguson |
| Thursday, January 30, 1997 | 7D | Word for poor Yorick | D. Motley |
| Monday, December 02, 1996 | 29D | Despondent comment | D. L. Wilk |
| Monday, November 04, 1996 | 19A | "Oh, woe!" | P. Wilson |
| Wednesday, October 23, 1996 | 1A | Cry for "poor Yorick" | R. Norris |
| Sunday, October 13, 1996 | 66A | "A pity!" | W. R. Williams |
| Friday, September 20, 1996 | 39A | Woeful word | J. Page |
| Tuesday, September 17, 1996 | 15A | Alack's partner | M. D. Frankel |
| Sunday, August 11, 1996 | 94D | "___ for Man, so stealthily betrayed": Millay | M. Schneider |
| Sunday, July 14, 1996 | 65D | "___the day!" (Shakespearean phrase) | J. Schmalzbach |
| Sunday, June 09, 1996 | 114D | Lament for Yorick | M. Gaffney |
| Wednesday, June 05, 1996 | 15A | "Wellaway!" | G. R. Ferguson |
| Monday, June 03, 1996 | 43D | "'Tis a pity!" | S. L. Robbins |
| Tuesday, May 21, 1996 | 62A | Woeful cry | J. Schmalzbach |
| Sunday, April 07, 1996 | 126A | Word of regret | C. Millhauser |
| Sunday, March 31, 1996 | 77D | "Oh, woe!" | J. Savage |
| Sunday, March 10, 1996 | 40D | Gloomy Gus's expression | F & L Sabin |
| Wednesday, February 21, 1996 | 18D | "'Tis a pity" | F. & L. Sabin |
| Sunday, February 18, 1996 | 62A | "Bummer!" | Norma Steinberg |
| Sunday, October 15, 1995 | 1A | Relative of "oy" | Mel Rosen |
| Tuesday, September 12, 1995 | 1A | "How sad!" | Gregory E. Paul |
| Monday, September 04, 1995 | 7D | "What a shame!" | Richard Thomas |
| Thursday, August 10, 1995 | 21A | Word of lament | Matt Gaffney |
| Saturday, May 20, 1995 | 33D | "Poor me!" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, March 12, 1995 | 101D | "Woe is me!" | Charles M. Deber |
| Saturday, March 04, 1995 | 26D | "_____, poor Milan!": Prospero | Rand H. Burns |
| Monday, February 27, 1995 | 52D | "Oh, woe!" | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Sunday, February 26, 1995 | 6D | "_____, my Love! ye do me wrong" | Fred Piscop |
| Wednesday, January 11, 1995 | 7D | "Welladay" | Stanley B. Whitten |
| Monday, December 12, 1994 | 56D | "Oh, woe!" | Joy L. Wouk |
| Thursday, November 10, 1994 | 20A | Word of woe | Alfio Micci |
| Wednesday, November 09, 1994 | 49A | Theatrical lament | Wayne Robert Williams |
| Tuesday, October 25, 1994 | 7D | Voiced sigh | Lois Sidway |
| Thursday, September 01, 1994 | 52D | "Poor pitiful me!" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, August 21, 1994 | 65D | Sadly | Ted Fulton |
| Monday, July 25, 1994 | 1A | "Woe is me!" | Albert J. Klaus |
| Thursday, June 23, 1994 | 10A | Melodramatic cry | Trip Payne |
| Tuesday, May 31, 1994 | 18D | "What a pity!" | Roger H. Courtney |
| Sunday, January 23, 1994 | 13A | Word of woe | Charles M. Deber |
| Monday, January 03, 1994 | 15D | "Too bad!" | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Sunday, December 12, 1993 | 11D | Sighing word | Cathy Millhauser |