Related Clues:
- A shortage, unfortunately
- Author feeding the last character to lion in meal, I suspect
- Unfortunately need to support Austria
- Author exhibits rising weight, tucking into beer and fruit
- Author's odd email covering sign about last letter
- Old-timey "alas" partner
- Old-style cry of regret
- Shakespearean cry of woe
- Cordelia's word of lament
- French author turning green, zeal destroyed — nothing penned
- Author's fictional land inspired by drink, something juicy written up
- Head abandons lecture about a Cuban leader, sad to say
- A shortfall, I'm afraid
- Writer who pioneered in naturalism
- Nominee for the first two Nobel Prizes in Literature (1901-02), but never won