Historical clue formulations

• Fail spectacularly — 2026-02-06
• Face-plant, so to speak — 2025-08-08
• Take the L — 2025-02-24
• Wipe out spectacularly — 2024-06-18
• Suffer an embarrassing loss — 2023-07-23
• Wipe out big-time — 2022-08-08
• Wipe out — 2021-11-28
• Completely fail — 2021-09-27
• Wipe out, slangily — 2021-05-23
• Face-plant, say — 2020-01-16
• Totally wipe out — 2018-11-26
• Weird Al Yankovic's first hit — 2018-11-13
• Wipe out, in slang — 2018-04-19
• "Take THAT, sucka!" — 2017-07-01
• Totally wipe out — 2016-05-24
• Suffer humiliation, in slang — 2014-02-23
• Wipe out, in surfing lingo — 2012-11-25
• First Top 40 hit for Weird Al Yankovic — 2012-11-14
• Grammy-winning Weird Al Yankovic song — 2012-06-03
• Weird Al Yankovic's first Billboard hit — 2011-08-19
• 1984 hit with the lyric "Have a banana, have a whole bunch" — 2010-06-26
• Suffer ignominious defeat, in slang — 2010-05-10
• *Crow — 2010-04-18
• Suffer ignominy — 2010-01-14
• Accept a bad defeat, in slang — 2008-12-07
• Absorb a loss — 2008-04-20
• Suffer a loss, slangily — 2007-11-16
• 1984 hit parody of a 1983 hit song — 2007-10-19
• Really love something, with "up" — 2007-01-22
• Suffer an embarrassing defeat, slangily — 2003-09-07
• Fail ignominiously — 2002-12-19
• Lose ignominiously, in slang — 2002-08-04
• Lose ignominiously, in slang — 2002-03-04
• 1984 Weird Al Yankovic hit — 2000-11-27
• Suffer defeat, slangily — 2000-07-23
• Suffer a loss, slangily — 2000-03-21
• Absorb the cost, in slang — 1998-11-22
• Suffer a humiliating loss, in slang — 1998-02-11
• Weird Al Yankovic parody — 1996-10-18
• Enjoy something enormously, with "up" — 1995-06-23