Historical clue formulations

• Groucho Marx prop — 2024-05-28
• Celebratory smoke — 2023-01-15
• The world's most expensive one, the Gurkha Royal Courtesan, costs over $1.3 million — 2022-02-27
• Item in a humidor — 2019-12-30
• Churchill prop — 2018-09-19
• "Close but no ___" — 2016-09-12
• Prop for Groucho — 2016-07-06
• Thick smoke — 2014-12-26
• Thick smoke — 2014-09-25
• With 56-Down, refuse to be cleaned out from a poker game? — 2014-05-16
• Puff piece? — 2013-06-10
• Churchill item — 2011-10-09
• It usually has a band around it — 2009-06-26
• Stogie — 2009-02-16
• Perfecto, e.g. — 2008-02-10
• Prop for Groucho Marx — 2007-09-25
• Churchillian trademark — 2007-06-10
• Havana, e.g. — 2006-11-14
• Thick smoke? — 2006-11-08
• Stogie — 2005-05-23
• New dad's handout — 2005-03-15
• "... but no ___" — 2004-07-17
• Smoke — 2003-09-19
• Stogie — 2001-11-27
• It may be in a poker player's hand — 2001-10-13
• Obsolescent carnival prize — 2000-05-04
• Post-delivery handout — 2000-03-05
• New father's handout — 1998-10-09
• 1995 Horse of the Year — 1997-06-06
• What a tabaquero makes — 1997-01-18
• Mark Twain prop — 1996-11-03
• Belvedere, for one — 1996-10-04
• Theme of this puzzle — 1996-05-01
• Corona, e.g. — 1995-12-10