Historical clue formulations

• Goes up in flames — 2025-06-10
• Incinerates ("To a Mouse") — 2023-04-19
• Overcooks, and then some — 2023-01-13
• Devilishly clever insults, in slang — 2020-08-26
• Scalds, e.g. — 2007-01-08
• Scams but good — 2000-06-11
• They're measured by degrees — 2000-03-26
• Rope injuries — 1999-11-17