Historical clue formulations

• ___ deal — 2025-08-30
• Cry after putting one's pencil down — 2025-04-27
• Finished — 2024-09-02
• "Deal!" — 2024-06-20
• Kaput — 2024-03-06
• Cry of accomplishment — 2022-12-29
• Rumble in the Jungle promoter — 2022-07-28
• Fully cooked — 2022-01-12
• Worker's cry of triumph — 2021-08-21
• Spent — 2021-01-30
• What a "R-r-r-ring!" in the kitchen signifies — 2020-07-17
• [mic drop] — 2019-03-22
• Over — 2018-10-28
• "It's a deal!" — 2018-03-25
• Ready to serve — 2016-12-17
• Unable to continue — 2016-07-10
• Sufficiently cooked — 2015-08-24
• Washed up, careerwise — 2015-07-12
• All washed up — 2015-05-29
• All over — 2014-05-12
• Puzzle solver's happy shout — 2014-03-11
• Cry made while wiping the hands — 2013-11-17
• Ready to come off the stove — 2013-08-20
• Finished — 2013-08-05
• Ready to serve — 2013-06-27
• ___ deal — 2013-05-25
• Finished — 2011-11-29
• Through — 2011-05-08
• "I finished" — 2010-10-20
• Ready, in the kitchen — 2009-09-20
• Ready to serve — 2009-02-25
• Exhausted — 2008-07-06
• Exhausted, with "in" — 2006-12-30
• Ready to come out of the 109-Down — 2005-11-06
• Successful solver's cry — 2005-04-06
• Over — 2004-01-30
• ... — 2004-01-15
• Ready to serve — 2004-01-07
• Out of the oven, say — 2003-08-29
• Ready to be removed from the oven — 2003-06-23
• Through — 2003-03-06
• Wrapped up — 2002-04-15
• Accomplished — 2002-03-31
• Finito — 2002-01-30
• Through — 2001-12-04
• On the back burner, perhaps — 2000-06-09
• Wrapped up — 2000-01-21
• Exhausted, with "in" — 1999-03-01
• Completed — 1999-02-11
• Ready to come out of the oven — 1998-07-05