Related Clues:

• Like McCullers' café
• 'Apologies!'
• Board game with SLIDE spaces
• Like many Shakespeare plays
• Lacking joy
• Teary-eyed, perhaps
• Very sad
• Needing a hug, maybe
• Unlike a good excuse
• In poor condition
• Like some irony
• "My humble apologies!"
• In need of heartening
• Tear-jerking
• "My humble apologies"