Historical clue formulations

• Get one's ducks in ___ — 2025-06-22
• Lined up, after "in" — 2024-05-03
• In ___ (lined up) — 2015-09-07
• Without interruption, after "in" — 2015-06-11
• "Pretty Maids All in ___" — 2015-05-24
• Sequentially, after "in" — 2015-01-28
• "... ducks in ___" — 2014-07-30
• Aligned, after "in" — 2014-03-28
• In ___ (lined up) — 2013-01-22
• Shoulder-to-shoulder — 2011-01-21
• In ranks — 2010-09-23
• Lined up, after "in" — 2010-02-08
• Ranked — 2008-07-11
• In ranks — 2007-09-21
• In ___ (lined up) — 2006-05-23
• Lined up — 2006-01-15
• In ranks — 2005-05-29
• Get one's ducks in ___ — 2005-04-26
• In ranks — 2004-12-04
• Three-in-___ — 2004-03-07
• Get one's ducks in ___ — 2003-12-03
• In ___ (aligned) — 2002-12-09
• Get one's ducks in ___ — 2001-09-18
• Lined up — 2001-02-13
• "And pretty maids all in ___" — 2001-01-29
• "... maids all in ___" — 2000-12-21
• Ranked — 2000-01-01
• Forming ranks — 1999-11-06
• In line — 1999-02-11
• Lined up — 1998-01-02
• Lined up — 1997-02-26
• "Pretty Maids All in___" — 1996-03-11
• Lined up — 1996-01-09
• Aligned, with "in" — 1995-08-18
• "Pretty Maids All in _____" — 1994-11-08
• In a line — 1994-05-03