Possible Clues:

• Like some irony
• Tea cloth, I see? That's just not funny
• It's not so funny to get a bit of cloth in a tic
• He leaves the US soldier in broken-down car -- that's sad
• Like "Macbeth"
• Grievous
• Ruling on leader of Tory tabloid is disastrous
• Like many Aeschylus works
• How sad for a little tea cloth, i see
• Come before one dies; they are never like this