Historical clue formulations

• Lead — 2026-07-25
• Board game set in a mansion — 2026-04-14
• 1985 mystery film with three different endings — 2026-01-13
• Hint — 2025-12-07
• What this is — 2024-10-20
• Carpet fiber or human hair, maybe — 2024-10-19
• Fingerprint or footprint, perhaps — 2024-06-25
• Game with nine rooms — 2024-01-16
• Hint — 2023-10-09
• One may be left at the scene of a crime — 2023-01-13
• "I have no ___" — 2022-10-12
• With 12-Down, secretly plots (with) — 2022-10-06
• Game of who, what and where — 2022-09-25
• You're reading one right now — 2022-06-13
• Aid in solving a mystery — 2021-09-20
• Tip-off — 2021-06-10
• Something dropped in a mystery novel — 2020-12-15
• Game with Mrs. White and Professor Plum — 2020-12-14
• Bit of evidence for Sherlock — 2020-08-10
• Single hair on a carpet, maybe — 2019-03-10
• This, e.g. — 2019-03-03
• This, for one — 2018-12-29
• Crime scene find — 2018-11-20
• What this is for 1-Down — 2018-05-22
• Whodunit game — 2017-08-23
• Mrs. Peacock's game — 2017-08-22
• "Get a ___!" — 2017-03-25
• "Get a ___!" — 2017-02-25
• This is one — 2016-07-21
• Detective's lead — 2016-05-09
• One of 77 in this puzzle — 2016-04-11
• Space cadet's need? — 2016-02-19
• Lead — 2016-01-24
• Fingerprint, perhaps — 2015-07-17
• Footprint, maybe — 2014-08-01
• It has nine rooms — 2013-12-15
• Miss Scarlet's game — 2013-03-13
• Game played with a rope — 2012-09-16
• Lipstick print, maybe — 2012-06-10
• Solving aid — 2012-03-23
• Footprint or fingerprint, say — 2012-02-03
• A ditz hasn't one — 2011-09-13
• Lead — 2011-06-04
• Colonel Mustard's game — 2011-01-31
• Mystery novel element — 2009-08-21
• Object under a magnifying glass, maybe — 2009-08-06
• What a loose thread might be — 2009-05-21
• Word in many a Nancy Drew title — 2009-03-30
• What a private eye may eye — 2009-02-11
• Game associated with the starts of 17-, 23-, 32-, 40-, 47- and 54-Across — 2008-12-09