Historical clue formulations

• Parenthetical remark — 2026-03-05
• Comment that breaks the fourth wall — 2026-01-21
• The half with the hit song, typically — 2025-11-04
• Remark to the audience — 2025-09-10
• Onstage comment to the audience — 2025-06-23
• One might start "Incidentally …" — 2025-04-20
• Way to be brushed or pulled — 2024-12-22
• Digression of sorts — 2024-07-25
• Comment that breaks the fourth wall — 2024-07-14
• Many a stage whisper — 2023-10-02
• "All kidding ___ …" — 2023-08-16
• Digression — 2023-07-16
• Apart (from) — 2023-07-04
• Digression — 2023-04-27
• Parenthetical comment — 2022-09-12
• Brief comment to an audience — 2022-06-07
• Performer's comment to the audience — 2022-05-18
• Line to the house — 2022-03-02
• Comment from a stage actor directly to the audience — 2022-02-07
• As an ___ (parenthetically) — 2022-01-18
• Parenthetical comment — 2021-12-27
• Many a confession on a theater stage — 2021-12-24
• Stage digression — 2021-06-30
• Words to the audience — 2021-06-17
• Dramatic device — 2020-10-23
• Apart (from) — 2020-09-29
• Digression — 2020-02-22
• Parenthetical comment — 2019-07-02
• One way to stand — 2018-08-10
• Out of the way — 2018-05-31
• Tangent line? — 2017-10-08
• Something bracketed — 2017-09-30
• Step ___ — 2016-05-29
• Fourth-wall breaker — 2016-04-29
• Digression — 2015-08-23
• Comment that might start with 96-Across — 2015-07-26
• Comment starting "By the way ..." — 2015-06-11
• Elvis's "What'd I Say" vis-à-vis "Viva Las Vegas" — 2015-02-26
• Brief digression — 2015-02-22
• Out of the way — 2014-07-09
• One way to stand — 2013-11-09
• "Hey Jude" vis-à-vis "Revolution," e.g. — 2012-11-21
• In reserve — 2012-08-01
• Obiter dictum — 2011-05-27
• Most-played part of a 45 — 2011-01-11
• Comment to the audience — 2010-12-28
• "Don't Be Cruel" vis-à-vis "Hound Dog" — 2009-11-29
• Play byplay — 2009-11-22
• Parenthetical remark — 2008-10-20
• It might start "By the way ..." — 2008-03-06