Related Clues:

• Preceder of a bit of bad news
• ___ and alack
• Prelude to bad news
• "I feel for you"
• Cry of the sorrowful
• "___, poor Yorick" (Hamlet)
• Sad to report
• "You shouldn't have!"
• Lamenter's comment
• 'Heck!'
• Sadly
• "Oh dear!"
• Resignation exclamation
• Regretter's word
• ''It's a shame!''