Historical clue formulations

• Down — 2025-09-04
• Down — 2025-02-07
• Alphabetically first rainbow color — 2024-12-17
• Down — 2024-03-20
• 77-Down's color — 2023-02-26
• Christmas color for Elvis — 2022-09-18
• Sad — 2021-11-23
• Racy — 2021-06-27
• Pale ___ dot (Earth) — 2019-11-05
• Risqué — 2019-08-17
• Like most of New York State's flag — 2018-04-19
• Feeling sad — 2018-03-20
• Like Alice's gown in "Alice in Wonderland" — 2017-11-10
• Down — 2017-04-29
• Color like indigo — 2017-03-02
• Midnight, e.g. — 2017-01-21
• Like the upper half of Haiti's flag — 2017-01-14
• Like Cookie Monster and Grover — 2016-09-08
• Off-color, paradoxically — 2016-08-17
• The "B" of Roy G. Biv — 2016-03-14
• The "B" in Roy G. Biv — 2016-02-16
• Word before cheese or chip — 2014-12-09
• Not at all chipper — 2014-02-06
• Feeling down — 2013-08-27
• Erotic — 2013-07-21
• See 1-Across — 2011-11-21
• Down in the dumps — 2011-11-13
• Grotto color at 61-Across — 2011-10-25
• Feeling down — 2011-02-02
• Bawdy — 2010-08-25
• Down — 2010-05-22
• Down — 2009-03-22
• Like a first-place ribbon — 2007-11-26
• Smurf-colored — 2007-11-21
• With 4-Down, longtime jazz record label — 2007-06-15
• With 52-Across, Thomas Gainsborough portrait, with "The" — 2007-05-28
• Azure — 2007-05-14
• Sad — 2006-11-21
• Ocean-colored — 2005-02-21
• Waiting to exhale? — 2004-05-01
• X-rated — 2004-04-20
• Like a robin's egg — 2003-09-03
• Down in the dumps — 2002-10-30
• Off-color — 2002-10-23
• Depressed — 2001-09-13
• Azure — 2001-05-29
• Sky-colored — 2001-03-12
• Bummed out — 2000-02-02
• Off-color — 1999-02-10
• Sad — 1998-11-04