Historical clue formulations

• With 68-Across, long-shot candidates … or a hint to six squares in this puzzle — 2026-03-05
• Like morbid humor — 2023-07-04
• Like some humor and chocolate — 2023-02-18
• What nyctophobia is the fear of — 2021-08-01
• Not in operation, as a Broadway theater — 2020-10-06
• Word before web or chocolate — 2019-06-16
• Noirish — 2018-06-27
• Macabre — 2016-04-08
• ___ horse (surprise candidate) — 2016-02-15
• Forbidding — 2015-06-05
• Word with horse or meat — 2015-05-21
• With 24-Across, witchcraft, e.g. — 2014-10-31
• Nighttime — 2014-01-24
• Giving no performances — 2013-10-26
• Unlit — 2011-08-08
• Alternative to white, as turkey meat — 2011-01-03
• Gloomy — 2009-11-16
• Noirish — 2009-10-04
• Chocolate choice — 2009-05-24
• Like some turkey meat — 2009-02-03
• With 4-Down, black magic — 2007-09-21
• With 54-Across, black magic — 2007-06-30
• Foreboding — 2006-10-06
• Not currently in use, as a theater — 2006-06-07
• Like some turkey meat — 2001-08-14
• Not white, as meat — 1999-11-08
• After dusk — 1999-10-05
• Unlit — 1998-04-15
• Thanksgiving meat request — 1997-05-06
• Swarthy — 1996-12-22
• Stygian — 1996-05-24
• Turkey meat request — 1995-01-12