Historical clue formulations

• Light touches — 2025-09-24
• Amounts of cream — 2025-04-18
• Small amounts, as of hair gel — 2025-03-17
• Dollops — 2025-03-09
• Small amounts — 2022-11-29
• Glue amounts, often — 2022-10-13
• Ointment amounts — 2022-04-24
• Applies with a cotton ball — 2020-05-20
• Uses a tissue, maybe — 2020-02-14
• Little amounts of cream — 2018-07-31
• Brylcreem amounts — 2018-04-24
• Painters' touches — 2017-03-06
• Delicately applies — 2016-07-10
• Applies gingerly — 2016-02-28
• Applies gingerly — 2015-03-18
• Pats gently — 2015-02-23
• Light touches — 2013-03-13
• Applies with a Q-Tip, say — 2012-08-21
• Smidgens — 2012-01-11
• Paints gently — 2009-04-08
• Little bits — 2008-10-19
• Smidgens — 2008-08-26
• Artistic touch-ups — 2004-12-03
• Applies lightly — 2004-03-08
• Soft touches — 2004-02-08
• Touches — 2002-12-03
• Smidgens, as of cream — 2002-11-18
• Small amounts — 2002-10-06
• Small amounts, as of cream — 2001-12-10
• Applies lightly — 2000-01-27
• Small amounts, as of cream — 1999-04-20
• Cotton ball applications — 1999-01-17
• Teeny amounts — 1997-12-30
• Touches lightly, as with a hanky — 1997-07-01
• Pats — 1997-03-21
• Taps or pats — 1996-07-04
• Uses a powder puff — 1995-08-21
• Smidgens — 1995-07-02
• Applies with cotton balls — 1994-07-17
• Small flatfishes — 1994-06-22
• Smidgens — 1993-11-24