Historical clue formulations

• Blunder — 2026-09-24
• Drop the ball — 2026-08-19
• Slip — 2026-08-14
• Pronounce "aisle" as it's spelled, e.g. — 2026-07-30
• Goof — 2026-07-08
• Do wrong — 2026-06-21
• Make a boo-boo — 2026-05-20
• Use salt instead of sugar, say — 2026-04-07
• Mess up — 2026-04-05
• Carry the ball in volleyball, e.g. — 2026-03-12
• Mispell a word, say — 2026-03-10
• Write "their" for "there," say — 2026-02-18
• Use salt instead of sugar while baking, say — 2026-02-15
• Slip up — 2026-02-08
• Mistake "air" for "heir," say — 2026-02-05
• Elicit the facepalm emoji, say — 2026-01-30
• Muff — 2026-01-28
• Go wrong — 2026-01-18
• Blunder — 2026-01-12
• Miss the mark — 2025-11-22
• Screw up — 2025-10-01
• Make a typo, say — 2025-08-26
• Goof — 2025-08-25
• Calculate something incorrectly, say — 2025-07-28
• Go wrong — 2025-05-14
• "To ___ is human, but it feels divine": Mae West — 2025-04-10
• Forget to finish writing a clue, mayb — 2025-02-23
• Do a whoopsie — 2025-01-13
• Botch things — 2024-12-29
• Make a mistake — 2024-12-16
• Human thing to do — 2024-12-12
• Stray — 2024-11-29
• Goof — 2024-11-08
• Drop the ball — 2024-10-06
• Fumble or bumble — 2024-09-22
• Make a gaffe — 2024-09-13
• Mess up — 2024-09-08
• Goof — 2024-09-01
• Blunder — 2024-08-14
• Make a big splash in diving, say — 2024-07-28
• Transgress — 2024-07-18
• Prove one's humanity, in a way — 2024-06-14
• Do wrong — 2024-05-19
• "The cautious seldom ___" (quote attributed to Confucius) — 2024-04-27
• Mess up — 2024-04-10
• Make a mistake — 2024-02-20
• What you might do on the side of caution — 2024-01-17
• Slip up — 2023-12-25
• Stray — 2023-11-30
• Slip up — 2023-11-26