| Remorse from mariner finally with bird | The Telegraph Toughie | 16 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Feel sorry for | LA Times Daily | 07 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about Garbo, endlessly (6) | Puzzler Cryptic | 07 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | "We ___ to inform you that ..." (sorry) |  |  | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 19 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 12 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Rue | The Times Concise | 31 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Rue | Eugene Sheffer | 26 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | "We ___ to inform you that ..." (we're sorry to inform ...) |  |  | 
          
            | Grieve over having right to bird (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Look back on in sadness |  |  | 
          
            | Contrite feeling | Wall Street Journal | 28 Jun 2025 | 
          
            | Remorseful feeling | Universal | 26 Jun 2025 | 
          
            | Rue: - the decision |  |  | 
          
            | Greet little Robert with some sorrow |  |  | 
          
            | Rue, feel remorse |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry for heron by river (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Contrition | The Sun Two Speed | 05 May 2025 | 
          
            | Ruth runs with heron | The Sun Two Speed | 05 May 2025 | 
          
            | Be sorry about red-headed bird (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Sorrowful feeling of loss (6) |  |  | 
          
            | With hindsight, master geriatrician admitted some self-reproach |  |  | 
          
            | Sorrow registered upon return? (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Feeling of sadness and repentance |  |  | 
          
            | Contrition | Newsday | 27 Feb 2025 | 
          
            | Feel repentant about (something) |  |  | 
          
            | To rue (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Feel bad about bird after first release (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry (6) | The Guardian Quick | 29 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Be very sorry for |  |  | 
          
            | Right bird to feel upset about (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Show remorse for egret after rough start (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry for rook and heron | The Times Quick Cryptic | 18 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Feel sorry for bird under hunter's foot |  |  | 
          
            | Rue | Mirror Classic | 15 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Feel guilty about | USA Today | 09 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Feel contrite | Thomas Joseph | 05 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Right! It's a bird but you wish otherwise |  |  | 
          
            | "We ___ to inform you that ..." (we're sorry to inform ...) |  |  | 
          
            | Feeling of remorse: - the decision |  |  | 
          
            | Penitence, compunction | The Times Concise | 09 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about heartless address (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Lament taking part of sinister German revolutionary |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sadness and repentance | Puzzler Backwords | 22 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Remorse | The Telegraph Quick | 26 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | Be sorry to see a king get the bird (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 05 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | That's right! Greet me like that and you'll be sorry |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry for getting the right bird (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 25 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Feel sorrow | Puzzler Backwords | 17 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Had-I-wist | The Times Sunday Concise | 16 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 28 May 2024 | 
          
            | Feel bad about river bird (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Rue | Commuter | 17 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Rue doing something (6) |  |  | 
          
            | The right bird to grieve over (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Feel remorseful: - the decision |  |  | 
          
            | The right bird to feel sorry for what one did (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry about address without energy |  |  | 
          
            | Feel remorseful |  |  | 
          
            | Feel remorse | The Telegraph Quick | 27 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | That's right! Greet me or you'll be sorry! |  |  | 
          
            | Apology impetus | Wall Street Journal | 16 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Sorrow (6) | Puzzler | 15 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 15 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | A feeling of sorrow over something lost, gone or done (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry for | Wall Street Journal | 21 Oct 2023 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 19 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 13 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Feel remorse having run over white bird | The Times Cryptic | 12 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Remorseful feeling | The Guardian Quick | 15 Aug 2023 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 01 Aug 2023 | 
          
            | Rue | LA Times Daily | 19 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Ruefulness | The Times Concise | 11 May 2023 | 
          
            | Rue | USA Today | 11 May 2023 | 
          
            | Feel repentant about |  |  | 
          
            | Remorse | Canadiana | 02 Jan 2023 | 
          
            | "We ___ to inform you that..." (sorry) |  |  | 
          
            | Wish undone | Thomas Joseph | 05 Nov 2022 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 02 Nov 2022 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 04 Oct 2022 | 
          
            | Facepalm emotion | New York Times | 30 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | Feel sorry | The Guardian Quick | 06 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | 'We ___ to inform you . . .' | USA Today | 09 May 2022 | 
          
            | Feel repentance over |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry about | Newsday | 18 Jan 2022 | 
          
            | “A man has cause for ___ only when he sows and no one reaps”: Charles Goodyear | New York Times | 26 Dec 2021 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 18 Dec 2021 | 
          
            | Feel bad for | Thomas Joseph | 09 Dec 2021 | 
          
            | Feel bad about | Thomas Joseph | 08 Nov 2021 | 
          
            | Self-reproach | LA Times Daily | 24 Oct 2021 | 
          
            | See 34 Across | Newsday | 01 Oct 2021 | 
          
            | Wish undone | Universal | 25 Aug 2021 | 
          
            | Sorrowful feeling for feathered creature after summer's end |  |  | 
          
            | Feeling for one who missed out | The Washington Post Sunday | 13 Jun 2021 | 
          
            | Sad to say, some overwater geraniums coming up | Irish Times Crosaire | 21 May 2021 | 
          
            | Beat oneself up over, say | New York Times | 02 May 2021 | 
          
            | Feel remorse | Irish Times Simplex | 17 Apr 2021 | 
          
            | Sad to say, globetrotter fails to get blotto | Irish Times Crosaire | 06 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Rue de Pierre Gretzky |  |  | 
          
            | Deplore being endlessly cruel |  |  | 
          
            | Fret about wading bird seen by river |  |  | 
          
            | Contrition | The Sun Two Speed | 08 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | Ruth runs with heron | The Sun Two Speed | 08 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | Wish undone | The Washington Post | 27 Nov 2020 | 
          
            | Wish undone | LA Times Daily | 27 Nov 2020 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about | Irish Times Simplex | 06 Nov 2020 | 
          
            | Contrition | The Telegraph Quick | 10 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | Feel remorse having run over bird |  |  | 
          
            | Rue | Irish Times Simplex | 05 Sep 2020 | 
          
            | River bird to feel remorse | The Sun Two Speed | 07 Jul 2020 | 
          
            | Rue | The Times Concise | 19 Jun 2020 | 
          
            | Mourn | The Telegraph Quick | 12 Jun 2020 | 
          
            | Sad to say, no pubs in Petersburg | Irish Times Crosaire | 16 Dec 2019 | 
          
            | Feel contrite | Thomas Joseph | 15 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Rue | The Telegraph Quick | 12 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | No pubs in Petersburg - I don't like the sound of that? | Irish Times Crosaire | 08 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Remorse for something done or left undone | Irish Times Simplex | 30 Sep 2019 | 
          
            | Feel bad about a past deed |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry about | New York Times | 03 Sep 2019 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about | The Washington Post | 01 Sep 2019 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about | LA Times Daily | 01 Sep 2019 | 
          
            | Wish undone | Thomas Joseph | 03 Aug 2019 | 
          
            | Rue | The Washington Post | 23 Jul 2019 | 
          
            | Rue | LA Times Daily | 23 Jul 2019 | 
          
            | Writing to greet criminal out of guilt | Irish Times Crosaire | 15 Apr 2019 | 
          
            | Feel sorry to be winger right on the left | The Telegraph Toughie | 27 Feb 2019 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry about |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry about |  |  | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | Feel bad about | Newsday | 10 Oct 2018 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about | Newsday | 11 Jul 2018 | 
          
            | Wish one hadn't behaved a certain way in the past, for e.g. |  |  | 
          
            | Compunction | Universal | 08 May 2018 | 
          
            | Feel remorse | The Sun Two Speed | 06 Apr 2018 | 
          
            | Some share Greta's sorrow | The Sun Two Speed | 06 Apr 2018 | 
          
            | Be remorseful about | USA Today | 14 Jan 2018 | 
          
            | Sadness as chap brought back tailless bird |  |  | 
          
            | Compunction |  |  | 
          
            | Be remorseful about |  |  | 
          
            | Feel remorse | The Telegraph Quick | 19 Dec 2017 | 
          
            | Feel contrite about | Wall Street Journal | 21 Oct 2017 | 
          
            | Be sorry about | The Telegraph Quick | 16 Oct 2017 | 
          
            | Rue | New York Times | 16 Aug 2017 | 
          
            | Bemoan what's in the heart of bitter German from the East | The Telegraph Cryptic | 20 Jul 2017 | 
          
            | Kick oneself for | USA Today | 12 May 2017 | 
          
            | Feel repentance for | The Times Concise | 10 May 2017 | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | Kick oneself for |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry about | Newsday | 18 Dec 2016 | 
          
            | Writing to greet model out of guilt | Irish Times Crosaire | 06 Dec 2016 | 
          
            | Feel bad about | Universal | 15 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | Feel sorry about fish discards from freighters | Irish Times Crosaire | 28 Oct 2016 | 
          
            | Rue | The Guardian Quick | 14 Oct 2016 | 
          
            | Feel bad for | Thomas Joseph | 23 Jul 2016 | 
          
            | Be sorry some winter germs turned up |  |  | 
          
            | Kick oneself for | Universal | 07 Jul 2016 | 
          
            | Rook and white bird are in sorry state | The Telegraph Cryptic | 31 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Wish undone | The Guardian Speedy | 10 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Kick oneself for |  |  | 
          
            | Rue | The Guardian Speedy | 22 Nov 2015 | 
          
            | Registered post missing deposits? Sorry! | Irish Times Crosaire | 19 Sep 2015 | 
          
            | Contrition | Newsday | 14 May 2015 | 
          
            | Wish undone | USA Today | 12 Apr 2015 | 
          
            | Wish undone | Universal | 10 Apr 2015 | 
          
            | Feel contrite about |  |  | 
          
            | Wish undone |  |  | 
          
            | Wish undone |  |  | 
          
            | Contrition |  |  | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | First filly to win the Kentucky Derby |  |  | 
          
            | Having "but one life to give for my country," to Hale |  |  | 
          
            | Sense of dissatisfaction |  |  | 
          
            | Contrite feeling |  |  | 
          
            | Wish undone |  |  | 
          
            | Apology stimulus |  |  | 
          
            | "King Lear" theme |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry about |  |  | 
          
            | Tantric song they wish undone? |  |  | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | Apology element |  |  | 
          
            | Kick oneself over |  |  | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | Apology element |  |  | 
          
            | Kick oneself for |  |  | 
          
            | Contrition |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry for |  |  | 
          
            | Lament |  |  | 
          
            | Feel contrition |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry for |  |  | 
          
            | Lament |  |  | 
          
            | Contrition |  |  | 
          
            | Feeling of rue |  |  | 
          
            | Bemoan |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry about |  |  | 
          
            | Feel bad about |  |  | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | Lament |  |  | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | Feel remorse |  |  | 
          
            | Product of hindsight, sometimes |  |  | 
          
            | Feel bad about |  |  | 
          
            | Feel contrition |  |  | 
          
            | Have second thoughts |  |  | 
          
            | Feel bad about |  |  | 
          
            | Bemoan |  |  | 
          
            | Bemoan |  |  | 
          
            | Word in a famous Hale quote |  |  | 
          
            | Sense of loss |  |  | 
          
            | Contrite feeling |  |  | 
          
            | Hale quote word |  |  | 
          
            | "To ___ deeply is to live afresh": Thoreau |  |  | 
          
            | Wish undone |  |  | 
          
            | Kick oneself |  |  | 
          
            | Rue the day |  |  | 
          
            | Bemoan |  |  | 
          
            | 1915 Kentucky Derby winner |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry |  |  | 
          
            | "That I have but one life to lose for my country," to Hale |  |  | 
          
            | Rue |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry about |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorry about |  |  | 
          
            | Wish one hadn't |  |  | 
          
            | "What if" feeling |  |  | 
          
            | Never forgive oneself |  |  | 
          
            | Have misgivings |  |  | 
          
            | Derby-winning filly: 1915 |  |  | 
          
            | Compunction |  |  | 
          
            | Be compunctious |  |  | 
          
            | Derby winner: 1915 |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry for |  |  | 
          
            | Emulate Miss Otis |  |  | 
          
            | Penitent's feeling |  |  | 
          
            | First filly to win the Kentucky Derby |  |  | 
          
            | Misgiving |  |  | 
          
            | Rejection-slip word |  |  | 
          
            | Bemoan |  |  | 
          
            | Feel sorrow |  |  | 
          
            | Mourn for. |  |  | 
          
            | Remorse. |  |  | 
          
            | 1915 Kentucky Derby winner. |  |  | 
          
            | Feeling felt by Miss Otis. |  |  | 
          
            | Penitence. |  |  | 
          
            | Have misgivings. |  |  | 
          
            | Be sorry. |  |  | 
          
            | A sense of loss. |  |  | 
          
            | "Daughter of haste." |  |  | 
          
            | Miss poignantly. |  |  | 
          
            | Have second thoughts |  |  | 
          
            | Compunction. |  |  | 
          
            | Derby winner, 1915. |  |  | 
          
            | Decline politely. |  |  | 
          
            | Deplore. |  |  | 
          
            | Sorrow. |  |  | 
          
            | Filly that won the Derby, 1915. |  |  | 
          
            | That might-have-been feeling. |  |  |