Historical clue formulations

• Improvise, as a speech — 2026-05-04
• Speak extemporaneously — 2026-02-12
• Wing it onstage — 2025-12-02
• Fly by the seat of one's pants — 2025-07-20
• Extemporize — 2024-09-27
• "Here's looking at you, kid" or "You can't handle the truth!," famously — 2024-09-15
• Cut the cards, perhaps — 2023-06-17
• Improvised comment — 2022-09-04
• Wing it — 2022-06-23
• It comes off the top of one's head — 2022-05-01
• Speak extemporaneously — 2021-03-15
• Do some improv — 2021-01-12
• Off-the-cuff remark — 2020-08-17
• Jack Nicholson's classic line "You can't handle the truth," for one — 2019-11-02
• Wing it — 2019-10-09
• Fashion lines? — 2019-05-04
• Wing it — 2019-01-27
• Off-script remark — 2019-01-08
• Forgo the teleprompter, say — 2017-08-30
• Skip the lines, say — 2017-08-05
• Deal with a broken teleprompter, say — 2017-01-17
• Wing it, in a way — 2016-03-24
• Ditch the script — 2015-09-30
• Depart from the prepared text — 2015-08-11
• What the Marx Brothers often do in their films — 2015-05-19
• Go off line? — 2015-01-22
• Wing it — 2014-08-26
• Off-the-cuff remark — 2014-08-11
• Wing it — 2014-03-11
• Wing it — 2013-03-19
• Wing it — 2012-12-18
• Wing it — 2012-11-01
• Extemporize — 2012-09-11
• It's not scripted — 2012-02-16
• Ignore the cue cards, say — 2011-03-02
• Wing it — 2011-01-05
• Forgo the script — 2010-11-17
• Proceed without notes, say — 2010-03-04
• Remark that might get you in trouble — 2010-02-17
• Improvise — 2007-09-11
• Remark that might get one in trouble — 2007-03-04
• Forgo the script — 2005-06-03
• Off-the-cuff — 2005-05-09
• Wing it — 2004-08-11
• Seat-of-the-pants performance — 2004-07-21
• Spontaneously — 2003-07-10
• Offhand — 2003-06-20
• Not scripted — 2003-06-08
• Unrehearsed — 2003-05-16
• Improvised — 2003-02-21