Historical clue formulations

• Order for a wedding reception — 2026-04-15
• Centerpiece of a birthday celebration — 2026-02-24
• Word with sponge or fish — 2026-01-15
• Dessert with icing — 2025-12-08
• What sfouf is, in Lebanese cuisine — 2025-11-29
• Encrust — 2025-05-09
• Birthday dessert — 2024-03-04
• Word with round or pound — 2023-06-10
• Order for a birthday party or wedding reception — 2022-12-13
• "Well, that takes the ___!" — 2022-03-14
• It may be iced for a happy birthday party — 2021-09-09
• Word that can follow either half of the answers to the starred clues — 2021-01-19
• Big order for a wedding reception — 2020-09-22
• What you can't have and eat, too, it's said — 2020-08-10
• Wedding reception staple — 2020-02-19
• What mud can do — 2019-10-11
• See 5-Across — 2019-02-10
• One might say "Happy Birthday" — 2018-01-10
• Become clumped — 2017-02-02
• Staple at a wedding reception — 2015-09-24
• - — 2014-10-09
• With 58-Across, bakery container — 2014-07-22
• It may be upside-down — 2014-06-26
• Part of many an anniversary celebration — 2014-02-02
• Become clumped — 2012-11-30
• Wedding reception need — 2011-05-20
• It's rich in sugar — 2011-03-03
• ___ and 10-Down — 2010-11-15
• Birthday order — 2010-08-18
• Wonderland food for Alice — 2010-04-08
• Stick together — 2008-10-10
• Part of a birthday celebration — 2008-05-26
• Piece of soap — 2007-12-30
• Base for some decorations — 2007-05-18
• Birthday dessert — 2007-02-19
• Birthday order — 2006-03-29
• Word that can follow either half of 17-, 25-, 37-, 52- or 62-Across — 2005-05-25
• Word that can follow the ends of 17-, 31-, 38-, 50- and 64-Across — 2004-03-09
• Wedding reception centerpiece — 2004-03-08
• Wedding reception centerpiece — 2004-01-05
• Word that can follow the end of 16-, 22-, 31-, 40-, 45- or 56-Across — 2001-09-18
• It may be upside-down — 2001-01-17
• Bake sale order — 2000-04-04
• Set — 2000-03-19
• Order for a party caterer — 1999-08-30
• Decorator's base — 1999-01-22
• It may be tiered — 1998-10-31
• Party centerpiece — 1998-06-10
• Candle holder — 1997-12-13
• Soap bar — 1996-04-25