Historical clue formulations

• Budget — 2025-05-10
• Like a low blow — 2023-09-03
• Word with tricks and thrills — 2022-06-20
• Like talk, they say — 2021-12-11
• Shabbily made — 2021-09-16
• Shoddy — 2018-12-23
• Like talk, it's said — 2016-08-27
• Penny-pinching — 2015-08-10
• Tawdry — 2013-07-27
• Way underpriced — 2012-05-28
• Not built to last — 2010-07-16
• Bargain-basement — 2005-05-22
• Underhanded — 2000-10-15
• Like Jack Benny, famously — 1997-08-25
• Miserly — 1995-07-13