Historical clue formulations

• With 18-Across, Emmy-winning "Ugly Betty" actress — 2022-01-11
• "Sweet land of liberty," in song — 2021-02-16
• AWOL part — 2020-07-23
• "Of thee I sing" addressee — 2020-01-31
• Land made for you and me, in a Woody Guthrie song — 2019-07-16
• Eponymous regatta-winning yacht of 1851 — 2018-10-04
• Name on both sides of the Equator — 2018-08-09
• U.S. heartland — 2017-05-14
• "The cauldron of Democracy" — 2016-12-11
• Another name for "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" — 2016-04-12
• "Sweet land of liberty," in song — 2016-03-28
• "A poem in our eyes," per Emerson — 2014-11-23
• Home to "alabaster cities" — 2014-08-08
• Stephen Colbert's "I Am ___ (And So Can You!)" — 2014-07-16
• She's beautiful, per a popular song — 2013-09-07
• "Another name for opportunity," per Ralph Waldo Emerson — 2013-08-08
• Explorer Richard Byrd's plane — 2011-06-19
• Song that begins "My country, 'tis of thee" — 2008-07-21
• Song with the lyric "My heart with rapture thrills" — 2004-01-16
• AOL member? — 2003-05-09
• Its third verse begins "Let music swell the breeze" — 2002-12-25
• Song that ends "God hold secure!" — 2002-02-03
• Song starting "My country, 'tis of thee" — 2000-06-12
• Statue of Liberty's home — 2000-01-21
• "West Side Story" song — 1998-08-13
• Historic plane of Adm. Byrd — 1996-10-25
• "West Side Story" song — 1996-07-05
• Whence the line "Let freedom ring!" — 1996-01-21
• The "thee" of "Of Thee I Sing" — 1994-05-20