Historical clue formulations

• Presaging disaster — 2026-05-14
• ___ wolf (extinct canine once prevalent across North America) — 2026-03-31
• Bleak — 2025-10-17
• Very pressing — 2025-09-17
• All but hopeless — 2025-02-13
• Extremely serious — 2025-01-27
• Grave — 2024-12-29
• Dreadful — 2024-06-09
• Dismal — 2023-09-28
• Requiring immediate attention — 2023-07-07
• Life-or-death — 2023-03-15
• In ___ straits — 2022-12-12
• Potentially catastrophic — 2022-12-06
• Ominous — 2022-05-01
• Critical — 2022-04-15
• Grim — 2022-02-02
• Not looking good at all — 2021-09-26
• Warning of disaster — 2021-06-15
• Pressing — 2021-01-08
• Very serious — 2021-01-03
• Urgent — 2018-12-12
• Catastrophic — 2018-10-23
• In ___ straits — 2018-04-09
• Requiring immediate attention — 2018-02-16
• Like some straits — 2017-08-08
• Dreadful, as circumstances — 2017-06-20
• More than serious — 2017-03-18
• Critical — 2015-09-05
• Descriptive of some undesirable consequences — 2015-06-09
• Terrible — 2014-07-20
• Critical — 2014-07-15
• Desperate — 2013-04-05
• Emergency-related — 2012-04-09
• Extreme — 2012-03-01
• Urgent — 2012-02-13
• In ___ straits — 2011-12-26
• Urgent — 2011-11-29
• Grievous — 2011-09-29
• Ominous — 2010-08-10
• Not just serious — 2010-01-14
• Very serious — 2009-02-13
• Urgent — 2009-02-03
• Life-or-death — 2008-10-18
• Foreboding trouble — 2008-03-26
• Awful — 2007-06-03
• Desperate — 2007-04-18
• Grave — 2006-11-17
• Acute — 2006-04-23
• Kind of need — 2005-12-20
• Calamitous — 2005-06-01