Historical clue formulations

• Completely lost … or where the now-idiomatic answer to each italicized clue has a literal meaning — 2026-09-09
• Befuddled — 2026-09-05
• Discombobulated — 2026-08-27
• Confused — 2026-06-24
• Cruising the Caribbean, say — 2026-06-09
• Befuddled — 2026-02-12
• Bamboozled — 2025-11-07
• Lost — 2025-11-06
• Bewildered — 2025-10-05
• On the ocean — 2025-01-13
• Totally perplexed — 2024-07-25
• Discombobulated — 2024-02-22
• Needing direction — 2024-01-03
• Totally confused — 2023-12-20
• On the ocean — 2023-12-11
• Nonplussed — 2023-08-12
• Completely disoriented — 2023-06-28
• Making a crossing, say — 2023-06-16
• Metaphorically lost — 2023-05-08
• Bewildered — 2023-01-13
• Totally lost — 2022-12-12
• Flummoxed — 2022-10-28
• Baffled — 2022-05-08
• Cruising, say — 2022-02-08
• Lost — 2021-12-26
• Befuddled — 2021-12-11
• In the main? — 2021-08-12
• Utterly lost — 2021-05-16
• Lost — 2021-02-12
• Confounded — 2021-01-18
• Totally lost — 2020-12-29
• Adrift — 2020-12-24
• Own a boat, say — 2020-07-23
• Where one might stay in a cabin — 2020-06-12
• Where icebergs are found — 2020-04-01
• Completely lost — 2020-02-02
• On the briny — 2019-12-24
• Totally lost — 2019-12-06
• Befuddled — 2019-06-02
• Bewildered — 2019-04-17
• Clueless — 2019-03-12
• On the open ocean — 2019-02-05
• Lost — 2018-12-16
• Flummoxed — 2018-10-13
• Out on a naval deployment — 2018-08-13
• Very puzzled — 2017-09-03
• Discombobulated — 2016-10-29
• Clueless — 2016-10-23
• Needing guidance — 2016-09-10
• Where the buoys are? — 2016-08-29