Related Clues:

• Unfortunately a shortage
• Previously expressed regret, with some minimal acknowledgement
• Group of characters caught up in bleak calamity, sadly
• There's something wanting here, I'm sorry to say
• One thing wanting in expression of regret
• Old expression of dismay
• Darling dog author
• Rather like odd slices of cake, unfortunately
• I mourn member of RAF, one in a thousand
• What a famine generates unfortunately
• Unfortunately there's a shortage
• Said when mourning an absence
• - - and alas!
• Sadly, there's a dearth
• Alas and - - !