Historical clue formulations

• Draconian — 2025-04-17
• Heartless — 2021-02-03
• Mean — 2020-07-23
• Sadistic — 2019-02-06
• Deliberately hurtful — 2017-12-18
• Barbarous — 2017-03-23
• Like Vlad the Impaler — 2017-01-05
• Mean, mean, mean — 2016-10-17
• Twisting the knife, say — 2016-09-10
• Like a Grand Inquisitor — 2016-01-16
• Monstrous — 2013-11-22
• Barbaric — 2012-10-28
• Steve Martin's "___ Shoes" — 2012-09-12
• Like Cinderella's stepsisters — 2012-08-06
• Hard-hearted — 2007-12-05
• Truculent — 2007-04-29
• Barbaric — 2004-01-11
• Unusual partner? — 1999-06-18
• Diabolical — 1997-03-11
• Hardhearted — 1996-05-12
• Beastly — 1994-01-21