Historical clue formulations

• Top number in a time signature — 2023-03-09
• Rap producers make them — 2022-08-07
• Prevails over — 2021-12-29
• Measure of a heart rate — 2021-06-04
• "___ me!" — 2015-05-22
• Local politics and high school sports, for news reporters — 2014-08-26
• Tops — 2011-03-09
• Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others — 2010-03-11
• Reporters' areas — 2009-11-27
• Cops' rounds — 2008-05-20
• Tops — 2004-10-30
• Thoroughly thumps — 2003-02-25
• Heart throbs — 2002-10-13
• Hits — 2001-08-19
• Ginsberg and others — 2001-04-21
• Ginsberg and Kerouac, e.g. — 1998-09-03
• Batters — 1996-02-11
• Heartthrobs — 1995-12-22
• Pulses — 1995-11-22
• Rhythms — 1994-08-28