Historical clue formulations

• Film composer Silvestri — 2026-09-11
• EGOT-winning composer Menken — 2026-06-11
• ___ Menken, composer of "Little Shop of Horrors" — 2026-06-01
• Cryptanalyst Turing — 2025-05-20
• ___ Moore, author of "V for Vendetta" — 2025-03-29
• "Watchmen" writer Moore — 2025-02-16
• Walker with the 2015 triple-platinum hit "Faded" — 2025-01-12
• Rickman of the Harry Potter films — 2024-09-16
• Parsons who worked on "Abbey Road" and "The Dark Side of the Moon" — 2024-06-29
• Non-Muppet owner of Hooper's Store on "Sesame Street" — 2023-11-02
• Menken who wrote the music for "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin" — 2023-06-30
• Mathematician Turing — 2023-05-08
• Actor Alda or Arkin — 2023-04-17
• Page or Ameche of football — 2023-03-10
• Chester Arthur's middle name — 2023-03-08
• "Succession" co-star Ruck — 2022-06-25
• Mathematician Turing — 2022-05-30
• Computer scientist Turing — 2022-05-04
• Philosopher Watts — 2022-02-26
• Actor Ruck of HBO's "Succession" — 2022-01-29
• ___ Page, N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer turned justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court — 2021-09-22
• ___ Kim, 7-year-old star of the Golden Globe-winning "Minari" — 2021-03-24
• ___ Freed, early radio personality who coined the term "rock 'n' roll" — 2020-12-17
• Late actor Rickman — 2020-10-06
• Cryptanalyst Turing — 2020-05-26
• Late Surrealist Turner — 2020-03-26
• Astronaut Shepard, first American in space — 2020-03-18
• Actor Alda — 2019-12-09
• First name of two of the 12 astronauts who have walked on the moon — 2019-10-19
• ___ Thicke, onetime late-night host — 2019-10-18
• Boy's name that becomes a girl's name if you move the first letter to the end — 2019-07-13
• Computer science pioneer Turing — 2019-07-01
• Bean in space — 2019-05-04
• Jackson of country music — 2019-03-05
• Astronaut Shepard — 2019-02-18
• Arkin of "Catch-22" — 2019-01-29
• Boy's name that's an anagram of 18-Across — 2018-11-14
• Rickman of the Harry Potter films — 2018-01-16
• Computer scientist Turing — 2018-01-04
• Mathematician Turing — 2017-08-27
• Bean in a pod? — 2017-06-24
• Mathematician Turing — 2017-06-19
• Mathematician Turing who was the subject of "The Imitation Game" — 2017-05-15
• Shepard in space — 2017-05-10
• Country star Jackson — 2017-05-07
• King who spoke at Kennedy's inaugural ball — 2017-04-02
• King of comedy — 2017-01-24
• Astronaut Shepard — 2016-10-30
• Enigma machine decoder Turing — 2016-10-07
• Rickman of the Harry Potter films — 2015-12-29