Historical clue formulations

• Watchful guardians — 2025-10-22
• Early investors, in lingo — 2025-05-30
• Shapes made in the snow — 2021-12-27
• One side of baseball's Freeway Series rivalry — 2020-08-07
• Heavenly beings — 2020-06-02
• Team once owned by Gene Autry — 2014-11-01
• Many figures of "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel — 2014-05-08
• Little dears — 2013-07-05
• White robe wearers — 2010-01-08
• Winged ones — 2007-01-17
• 2002 World Series champs — 2005-06-26
• Backers — 1999-09-12
• Troublemakers, never — 1999-07-11
• Messengers from afar — 1995-05-25