CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES XIV

Credit: NY Times Crossword
February 2, 2010
Alex Fay

Consider these two crossword clues:

1. Try, as a case before a judge
2. Baseball great Williams

Now try to make up a third clue which can be answered by combining the answers of the two clues above. Wordplay is fair play.

Answers to the first two clues:

1. HEAR
2. TED

Third clue:

3. Very sorrowful

Answer to third clue:

BROKEN HEARTED 

(HEAR + TED - broken up into two clues)