Historical clue formulations

• Bare-bones — 2026-01-16
• Word with cable or training — 2025-05-14
• Fundamental — 2025-04-15
• >7 on the pH scale — 2025-01-06
• No-frills — 2023-06-13
• Not complicated at all — 2023-03-04
• Universal ___ income — 2022-12-22
• Meat-and-potatoes — 2022-12-14
• Elemental — 2022-07-14
• Aggressively mainstream, in slang — 2021-12-12
• 101 — 2020-10-14
• Rudimentary — 2019-02-03
• Like a course labeled "101" — 2018-05-23
• Like a course labeled "101" — 2018-01-11
• Turning phenolphthalein pink — 2015-01-31
• Like a college course labeled "101" — 2013-10-22
• Fundamental — 2012-06-04
• Nuts-and-bolts — 2012-03-28
• Fundamental — 2012-02-20
• Computer language from 1964 — 2011-04-07
• 101 — 2010-06-16
• Like the A B C's — 2010-02-09
• Meat-and-potatoes — 2009-07-22
• Not advanced — 2009-01-17
• No-frills — 2008-10-13
• 101, in a course name — 2008-03-30
• Unadorned — 2007-04-08
• Meat-and-potatoes — 2007-03-22
• Like 101 courses — 2005-04-06
• Underlying — 2004-10-05
• Meat-and-potatoes — 2004-08-15
• Early computer language — 2004-01-27
• 101 — 2003-05-16
• Fundamental — 2002-08-06
• Fundamental — 2002-04-01
• Microsoft's first product — 2002-04-01
• Kind of instinct — 2000-12-03
• Meat-and-potatoes — 2000-04-19
• No-frills — 1999-12-16
• Word in 101 course names — 1999-10-13
• Underlying — 1999-05-09
• No-frills — 1999-01-09
• Acronymic computer language name — 1998-09-21
• Kind of training — 1997-12-17
• Computer language — 1997-09-19