Clues for the word "ALAS"
We've had 679 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2337 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on April 18, 2025.
Definition of alas
- interj. - An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
Referring Clues
- Despondent comment
- "Oh, woe!"
- Cry for "poor Yorick"
- Griever's exclamation
- Woeful word
- Cry for what might have been
- "I am miserable"
- "Woe is me!"
- "___, 'tis true I have gone here and there": Shak.
- Start of Hamlet's "Yorick" speech
- Word for poor Yorick
- Word after a loss
- Word repeated in "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"
- "Too bad!"
- Wistful word
- Word of resignation
- Word of regret
- Word said with a tear
- "Oh, were it not true!"
- "Ah, me!"
- "Oh dear!"
- "Wellaway!" updated
- "How awful!"
- "What a shame!"
- Dramatic wail
- "Poor me!"
- [Boo-hoo!]
- Relative of 55-Across
- "'Tis a pity"
- "Unfortunately..."
- Too bad King has changed direction (4)
- Word for Yorick
- [sigh]
- "What a shame"
- "Ah, those were the days"
- "If only things had turned out different!"
- "What a pity!"
- "Oh, my!"
- It's said with a sigh
- "Dear me!"
- Opposite of "Hurray!"
- Cry after failing
- Melodramatic cry
- Sorry to say
- "Ohhh"
- Pitying cry
- "Sorry to say ..."
- "Too bad"
- Resigned remark
- Regrettably
- Word of woe
- "Sad to say ..."
- Comment on a loss
- "Unfortunately ..."
- "C'est la vie"
- "Ohhhh ..."
- Dejection interjection
- "___, how love can trifle with itself!": Shak.
- Poetic plaint
- Word of sorrow
- Sad statement
- Sighed cry
- "How sad!"
- "___ the heavy day!": "Othello"
- "'Tis a shame"
- Expression of unhappiness
- Self-pitying cry
- "___, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio"
- "___ the day!" (Shakespearean interjection)
- Comment about a loss
- "That's a shame"
- "Darn," more formally
- "Such a pity"
- "A pity"
- "Regrettably ..."
- As bad luck would have it
- "___ the day!" (Shakespearean exclamation)
- "Ah me!"
- Sorrowful utterance
- Hamlet said it re Yorick
- "Bummer!"
- Cry of dismay
- "More's the pity"
- "Bummer, man!", more formally
- "I feel so sorry!"
- "Sorry to say..."
- "Woe is me"
- "Sad to say..."
- Grief-stricken cry
- Hamlet's expression
- "Oh me!"
- "Oh no!" of old
- Expression of sorrow
- Interjection of dejection
- "Pity!"
- Hamlet's expression regarding Yorick
- Verbal sigh
- "Pigeons on the grass ___" (Gertrude Stein)
- "Curse the luck!"
- Woeful exclamation
- "Oy, vey!"
- "Oy!"
- Lament for "poor Yorick"
- Opposite of "Whoopee!"
- "___, poor Yorick!"
- "I hate to say it, but ..."
- "Oh, woe is me"
- Woeful cry
- Poetic lament
- Sad word
- "It pains me to say ..."
- Distressed utterance
- Quaint plaint
- Sorrowful interjection
- "Oh, dear me!"
- Sorrowful sigh
- Woeful utterance
- "It's a pity!"
- Sympathetic word
- Exclamation of grief
- Cry of pity
- Alack partner
- Woe word
- "D'oh!" of old
- "How unfortunate!"
- Quaint complaint
- "Lackaday!"
- Crier's sigh
- Sighed word
- Common interjection in Shakespeare
- Sigh of pity
- Pitiful exclamation
- "Sadly ..."
- "___, Babylon" (Pat Frank novel)
- "Woe!"
- Sighed line
- Woeful sigh
- Pitiful plaint
- "That's too bad"
- "___, Babylon" (1959 novel)
- Sighed interjection
- "___, poor Yorick!": Hamlet
- Exclamation of wistfulness
- Cry of despair
- Word of pity
- Quaint word of regret
- "Such a shame"
- "Unhappily ..."
- Word spoken with a hand on one's forehead, maybe
- Word after a sigh
- "___, poor Yorick": Hamlet
- "Sorry to say"
- Unfortunately
- Word said with a sigh
- Distressed cry
- Rueful utterance
- Despondent word
- "Oh, dear!"
- "Oh gracious!"
- Regretful word
- "Dear me!"
- Sad cry
- "Sad to say . . ."
- "Woe is me!"
- "Oh, dear!"
- "Too bad!"
- Remark of regret
- "That's too bad!"
- "Very sorry!"
- "D'oh!" relative
- Cry of sorrow
- "That's a shame!"
- "Bummer!"
- Cry of resignation
- "Sorry to say . . ."
- World-weary one's word
- Wistful one's word
- "How sad!"
- "Ah, me!"
- Rueful word
- Sorrowful word
- "Goodness gracious!"
- "Oh, no"
- "'Tis a pity!"
- Sigher's word
- "___, poor Yorick . . ."
- "What a bummer!"
- "Oh, my!"
- Sighed comment
- "Woe is me"
- "My bad luck!"
- "Oh, no!"
- Regretful remark
- Theatrical lament
- "Unfortunately ..."
- "Tut-tut!"
- Shakespearean "Bummer!"
- Exclamation of sorrow
- "'Tis a pity!"
- Word of dismay
- Word wailed in woe
- Worrier's word
- Ruer's word
- "'Tis a pity!"
- Start of a phrase of regret
- Gloomy Gus' expression
- Dignified "Shucks!"
- "Bummer!" formally
- Expression of pity
- "___, poor Yorick" (Hamlet)
- Word of concern
- "What a pity!"
- "Curse the luck!"
- "For pity's sake"
- "Oy!"
- Old-style "Bummer!"
- Commiserator's word
- Woeful expression
- Comment of the despondent
- Word in reference to Yorick
- "Tsk! Tsk!"
- "Me oh my"
- "Oh dear!"
- Woeful interjection
- "Oh me, oh my"
- "Dear, dear!"
- "Poor me!"
- "Oh, me!"
- Sigh of resignation
- "For pity's sake"
- "Gracious me!"
- "For pity's sake!"
- "Just my luck!"
- Word that's dramatically sighed
- Dramatically sighed word
- Sad comment
- "It pains me to say . . ."
- "What a bummer!"
- "Sad to say . . ."
- "That's not good!"
- "Dear me"
- Shakespearean "Bummer!"
- "Oh, me!"
- Word sometimes said with a tear
- "Dear, dear!"
- It's said pitifully
- Word to a skull, mayhaps?
- Expression of resignation
- "Bad news!"
- Commiserative comment
- "Bummer!" to Shakespeare
- Sad commentary
- Dignified "Shucks!"
- Sad to say
- "___, poor Yorick!": Hamlet
- Word following a sigh
- "That's a shame!"
- Word said with a tear, maybe
- "___, poor Yorick ..."
- Exclamation of resignation
- Preceder of a bit of bad news
- ___ and alack
- Opposite of "Hooray!"
- Frightens
- "Ach!"
- Woeful lament
- Cry of the sorrowful
- Melodramatic lament
- "___, poor Yorick" (Hamlet)
- Lamenter's comment
- Sadly
- First word of "Greensleeves"
- "It's a shame!"
- Sad interjection
- Word of lament
- Woeful comment
- Statement of resignation
- Old-world word of woe
- Shakespearean lament
- "___, 'tis true, I have gone here and there": Sonnet 110
- Anguished wail
- "That's too bad!"
- Bummer!, in days of yore
- Old-style "Bummer!"
- "Tsk! Tsk!"
- "Me oh my"
- "Bummer!" formally
- "Tut-tut!"
- "___, poor Yorick": Hamlet
- "Lackaday"
- "My bad luck!"
- "Oh, no!"
- "Oh gracious!"
- "Very sorry!"
- "D'oh!" relative
- "Goodness gracious!"
- "Oh, no"
- "Tis a pity!"
- "___, 'tis true, I have gone here and there": Sonnet 110
- "Them's the breaks," more formally
- "Bummer," more formally
- Word expressing pity
- "Sad to say"
- "Sad to say"
- Woe is me
- Woe betide
- Woe is me!
- It might precede bad news
- "Ah, well ..."
- "So sad!"
- Word meaning "That's too bad"
- Sigh of sorrow
- Mournful wail
- "Oh, what a world!"
- Opposite of "Happily ..."
- Rueful remark
- Word often sighed
- Prelude to bad news
- Lamenter's cry
- "Oh, cruel world ..."
- 'Oh, woe!'
- 'Woe is me!'
- 'Oh, woe'
- 'Sad to say, ...'
- 'Sad to say ...'
- Weary word
- Remark re Yorick
- 'Sad to tell, ...'
- 'Sad to say'
- 'Sad to tell ...'
- Reaction re Yorick
- Comment re Yorick
- 'Sad to say,...'
- 'Pity, pity'
- Cry of woe
- 'Ah, me!'
- 'Woe!'
- 'How sad!'
- 'So sad'
- 'How sad'
- 'Sadly ...'
- 'Poor me!'
- 'Dear me!'
- 'Woe is me'
- Hamlet's word of regret
- Shakespeare's "Bummer!"
- Sigh of regret
- "Bummer!" of old
- Interjection that comes from the Latin for "weary"
- "Bummer!" of old
- Lament for Yorick
- "That's so sad"
- "___, I am dying beyond my means": Oscar Wilde
- "'Tis a sad day"
- "Ah, 'twas not to be"
- Mournful comment
- Melodramatic "Rats!"
- Mournful cry
- Word said while wringing one's hands
- 'Sad to say...'
- Wail of woe
- Word from Hamlet
- Melodramatic moan
- Dramatic cry
- Shakespeare's "Poor me!"
- Old-time word of woe
- Medieval "Bummer!"
- "___, Babylon" (Cold War classic)
- "___, the love of women!": Byron
- Pitiful interjection
- "Sorry to say ... "
- 'Wellaway!'
- Cry of sadness
- A word to poor Yorick
- Word from Hamlet while holding a skull
- A word about poor Yorick
- "Pity"
- "Twas not to be" preceder
- Sorrowful cry
- Old-timey word of woe
- Word of despair
- Olden "Oy!"
- Verbalized sigh
- Pained cry
- "It wasn't meant to be"
- Intro to "twas not to be"
- Word of distress
- "___, poor Yorick"
- Expression of sorrow or pity
- Resignation exclamation
- Dramatic lament
- "If only things had turned out differently!"
- Cry from the heartbroken
- Quaint lament
- "That's a pity"
- Wistful remark
- "What a pity"
- Cry of regret
- Sad word for "Poor Yorick"
- Bard's "Bummer!"
- Mournful expression
- Word spoken by Hamlet
- "Poor pitiful me!"
- Oral lament
- "___, I am not coop'd here for defence!": "Henry VI, Part 3"
- Opposite of "Yay!"
- Wistful intro
- Shakespearean "What a shame"
- Sadly...
- Sighing word
- Troubled cry
- Sighed line?
- Remark of the resigned
- "It's a pity"
- "I wish it weren't so"
- Despairing utterance
- Troubled word
- "Ah, so sad"
- "It's sad but true ..."
- Dignified "Drat!"
- Unluckily
- Exclamation of woe
- Oh dear
- "Tis a pity"
- Plaintive cry
- "Oh, were it not so!"
- Bard's plaint
- Shakesperaean lament
- Weary sigh
- "That's the way the cookie crumbles"
- 'Ah, so sad'
- "Fate is so cruel!"
- Lamentful word
- Bad-news lead-in
- Shakespearean plaint
- Hidden theme of the puzzle
- 'What a pity!'
- "If only ..."
- " 'Twas not to be ..."
- "___ the day!" (cry repeated in Shakespeare)
- "Ah, well"
- Ancestor of "D'oh!"
- Hamlet lament
- "A pity!"
- "Sigh!"
- Exclamation of regret
- "Ah, man!" of old
- Start of a Hamlet monologue
- Darn!
- "Sob"
- Sighing cry
- Poetic cry
- Old-school lament
- "Bummer" of old
- Expression of concern
- What a pity!
- Beef beginning
- "Such a pity!"
- "Tis a shame'
- "Sadly ... "
- "Pitiful me"
- Hand-wringer's word
- Exclamation of sorrow or pity
- Sigh of woe
- "Such is life"
- Worry word
- "Dear me!" word
- "Sad is my lot!"
- "C'est la vie!"
- Interjection derived from the Latin for "weary"
- "___ my love! ye do me wrong"
- "___ for man, so stealthily betrayed": Millay
- Sad work for Yorick
- Word that may precede sad news
- 'What a shame'
- Shakespeare's "Sadly ..."
- "Sorry to hear that"
- Relative of "oy"
- Bard's lament
- Expression of regret
- Exclamation
- Word of grief
- Alack!
- "That's a doggone shame!"
- Hamlet's word of woe
- "Tis a pity!22
- "This sucks," poshly
- Expression of regret for a girl not finishing
- "Oh well," in more poetic terms
- A girl's incomplete expression of regret
- "___, Babylon" (1959 post-apocalyptic novel)
- "Woe be unto me!"
- Expression of woe
- "Oh well," of long ago
- Lamenting cry
- Alack's partner
- Isolated state reduced, unfortunately
- Railways regularly neglected, I'm sorry to say
- Cry that goes up when there's not enough salad?
- A girl reaches no conclusion, sad to say
- Central Asian expression of sadness
- Letters regularly lost by railways, unfortunately
- An expression of regret in the general assembly
- It's in Alaska, unfortunately
- Australasian word of regret
- Sorrowful exclamation echoed by a girl
- Sad to say, a girl gets mimicked
- Part of the general assembly, unfortunately
- A girl said a word of regret
- A girl, not a son? I'm not happy about that
- A girl finally loses direction, sad to say
- Preceder of "poor Yorick"
- "O woe!"
- Wistful utterance
- It'll show you the world
- Lamenting sigh
- Unhappy to hear it's a girl
- Pity a girl that's not all there!
- Rejected suitor's word, perhaps
- Poor Yorick's word
- Dramatic cry of woe
- "Sadly," quaintly
- "Oh, what a terrible pity!"
- Quaint cry of regret
- "Sustineo ___" (early USAF motto)
- "It was too good to be true" lead-in, maybe
- Plaintive sentence opener
- Word of regret, detailing something possibly mixed up
- State misfortune thus
- Expression of regret when one abandoned adopted name
- Cry of grief from girl who's lost a son
- In the middle of a funeral, a sudden cry of grief
- Alias I had to drop, unfortunately
- Tossed salad endlessly? Oh, dear!
- An element of political asylum, unfortunately
- Pseudonym I omitted, unfortunately
- "We need a government, ___, because of the nature of humans": P. J. O'Rourke
- Whittier plaint
- "What a tragedy!"
- "'Twas never to be ..."
- Something said with a sigh
- Start of a sad tale
- "Why me?"
- A girl mentioned with regret
- Word of lament for "poor Yorick"
- "Alack" companion
- Word from the Latin for "weary"
- Hamlet's lament
- "How unfortunate!" to Shakespeare
- Melodramatic "Oh no!"
- "Ah, man. Me again?"
- Rueful sigh
- "Why is it always me?"
- "Rats!"
- Taking most of the salad back with a regretful expression
- "Sadly for me ..."
- "What a pity," quaintly
- Too bad, to bards
- Seems to parody a girl, unfortunately
- Lead-in to bad news
- "Oh well!"
- Sighed lament
- "Bummer!," old-style
- Mournful word
- "___, 'tis true ..." (start of a Shakespearean sonnet)
- "'Tis sad"
- "I'm sorry to say..."
- "Boo"
- "Oh, poor me"
- U-turn from "I'm good"
- Regretful comment
- Lead-in to unfortunate news
- Handwringer's word
- "So it goes"
- Pitiful me word
- "Ah well, we tried"
- "I'm doomed!"
- Word often said with a sigh
- "Regretfully ..."
- Word from the weary
- Sad sigh
- A girl's not finished, unfortunately
- Doleful word
- "___! 'tis true I have gone here and there" (start of a Shakespeare sonnet)
- "Sadly," in poems
- What a lass sadly said
- "With all regrets..."
- "This is e'er so tragic!"
- Shakespeare's "Woe!"
- Unfortunately, insufficient cash for the health centre
- Unfortunately I left a false name
- Regrettably mimicking a girl
- Remark with a sigh
- "'Tis a tragedy"
- Word from the woebegone
- "Too bad," to a bard
- "I'm afraid ..."
- Word from Old French for "wretched"
- “Sad to say...”
- “That’s too bad”
- Piteous sigh
- "Such is my fate!"
- "We gave it a shot"
- Primmer "That sucks!"
- "Say it ain't so!"
- It's just like a girl, unfortunately
- Word from the woeful
- "Why did this happen to me? ME!"
- Word spoken with a sigh
- “Sorry to say...”
- "Woe is me", as a girl said
- “Regrettably...”
- "Too bad," old-style
- Copy a girl, sadly
- Word before some sad words
- Expression of grief
- "Oh, what a shame!"
- Woeful remark
- Painful cry of regret
- Resigned interjection
- "I hate to say it ..."
- Cry of deep regret
- Cry of remorse or regret
- "Too bad for little me"
- “I fear...”
- "Too bad for us all, we tried"
- "That's terrible"
- "I regret to inform you ..."
- "That's life, I guess"
- Old poet's cry of grief
- Bad news word
- Hooray antonym
- "There was no other choice ..."
- What a pity it's in Alaska!
- Poetic cry of regret
- "It's too bad!"
- Lamenting word
- Sad exclamation
- "'Tis a bummer"
- Cry that goes up when there's not enough salad?
- Word with a sigh
- Old-style "Awww, why did this happen to me?"
- "Too bad for little old me"
- Exclamation after a sigh
- "It's too bad," old-style
- "Too bad for poor little old me"
- "That's rough"
- "Too bad for me," in 1729
- "Too bad for me, the old poet"
- "___, I am not coop'd here for defence!": Shak.
- "___ poor Romeo!": Shak.
- Lead-in to some regrets
- "It wasn't to be"
- "___ the day!" (exclamation from "Twelfth Night")
- *Portrayer of Scrooge in 1951's "A Christmas Carol"
- Quaint word of dismay
- "Too bad, so sad!"
- "'Tis most regrettable"
- "Too bad for poor me!"
- "It's so sad"
- Old-school word of lament
- "Welp," quaintly
- Pretty dramatic way to say "Too bad"
- "___, poor Yorick!": Shak.
- Lead-in to disappointing news
- "That's most unfortunate"
- "Sigh ... oh, well"
- "Tragically ... "
- Cry for Yorick
- Word expressing woe
- Woebegone word
- "Sorry, but ... "
- Centuries-old "Aw, man!"
- "Welp, what can you do?"
- "'Tis sad, but ..."
- "Stuff happens"
- Poet's plaint
- Word of sadness
- "'Twas not to be" word
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