Crossword-Solution: SOBSTORY 8 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SOBSTORY	anagram	BOORSSTY

Clue	Answers
Sympathy-arousing excuse	1 answer
It may elicit sympathy	1 answer
Lame excuse, perhaps	1 answer
Long, drawn-out excuse	1 answer
Many a lame excuse	1 answer
Maudlin plea	1 answer
Often-exaggerated tale	1 answer
One type of reportage.	1 answer
Sympathy seeker's tale	1 answer
Insincere excuse	1 answer
Tale about a real so-and-so?	1 answer
Tale of personal woe	1 answer
Tale that tugs at the heartstrings	1 answer
Tale told to elicit tears	1 answer
Tearful tale	1 answer
Whiner's tale	1 answer
Whiny explanation	1 answer
Whiny litany	1 answer
Excuse that's often exaggerated	1 answer
"Cry me a river!" elicitor, perhaps	1 answer
"Cue the violins!" elicitor	1 answer
A play to one's emotions	1 answer
Account by a sympathy seeker	1 answer
Appeal to emotion	1 answer
Bid for sympathy	1 answer
Bid for sympathy, maybe	1 answer
Blue yarn?	1 answer
Charity account?	1 answer
Empathy inducer	1 answer
Excuse designed to elicit sniffles	1 answer
Excuse meant to arouse sympathy	1 answer
Excuse meant to elicit sympathy	1 answer
Excuse of a sort	2 answers
Tale of woe	4 answers
Tear-jerker	8 answers
BE INSINCERE	10 answers

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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

ENE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 47 times in crossword archives (1966–2025).