Possible Clues:

• Most pitiable
• After tea, the bit of 23 down, I see, is no laughing matter
• Involving grief of death or destruction
• Disastrous, desperately sad
• Like 'Macbeth'
• No joking, that's a little tea cloth, I see
• The stuff is so fine that the girl gets to be enthusiastic about it
• Could this be a sound Sadducee?
• With 98-Down, Oedipus and Willy Loman
• Disastrous, pitiful