Historical clue formulations

• Mix, as butter and sugar — 2024-09-15
• Off-white shade — 2023-04-16
• Pummel — 2022-11-06
• Band with the first platinum-selling double album — 2022-02-24
• Destroy — 2020-08-08
• Defeat soundly — 2020-07-19
• "___ or sugar?" — 2019-10-22
• Word before sauce or soda — 2019-10-16
• Destroy, as an opponent — 2018-07-04
• Smash — 2018-03-22
• Beat soundly — 2016-11-18
• Whip ... or something that can be whipped — 2014-08-12
• Additive to coffee — 2013-07-29
• Slaughter — 2012-01-08
• Shellac — 2009-12-18
• Alfredo sauce ingredient — 2008-12-31
• Best by far — 2008-04-18
• Drub — 2007-07-29
• Cat's saucerful — 2006-08-07
• It's skimmed off the top — 2006-05-01
• It can follow the first word of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 28-Down — 2006-03-22
• Coffee lightener — 2002-07-08
• Best part — 2001-08-05
• Half-and-half half — 1999-05-30
• Best — 1998-08-07
• Give a shellacking — 1998-07-22
• Word with puff or soda — 1996-05-05
• Dairy product — 1995-09-19
• Shellac — 1995-01-21
• What a skimmer skims — 1994-08-26
• Lambaste — 1994-02-03