"___, poor Yorick!"

The answer

ALAS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALAS answer page.

Used 75 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALAS

Every other clue in this collection answered by ALAS, most used first.

• "Woe is me!" - used 255 times, most recently in 2026
• "Sad to say ..." - used 250 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of woe - used 143 times, most recently in 2026
• "Too bad!" - used 136 times, most recently in 2025
• Regrettably - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of regret - used 124 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ah, me!" - used 112 times, most recently in 2023
• "Sadly ..." - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• "Sorry to say . . ." - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• "Unfortunately ..." - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Woeful word - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
• "Oh, woe!" - used 71 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's too bad" - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• "Oh, dear!" - used 54 times, most recently in 2021
• Woeful cry - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• [sigh] - used 46 times, most recently in 2026

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• Poor grades - DEES, used 75 times

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