Historical clue formulations

• Makes an oopsie — 2026-08-13
• Flubs — 2026-04-20
• Leaves the straight and narrow — 2025-11-30
• Isn't perfect — 2025-11-04
• Says 2 + 2 = 5, e.g. — 2025-10-20
• Forgets to proorfeed, say — 2025-10-03
• *Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc. — 2025-06-05
• Trips — 2025-05-10
• Acts human, proverbially — 2024-12-28
• Gets it wrong — 2024-11-19
• Goofs up — 2024-09-15
• Slips — 2024-07-13
• Blows it — 2024-06-19
• Slips — 2024-06-06
• Puts a round peg in a square hole, say — 2024-05-04
• Makes a gaffe — 2024-03-31
• Commits a faux pas — 2024-03-20
• Makes a misstep — 2024-01-14
• Messes up — 2024-01-02
• Slips — 2023-12-08
• Goofs — 2023-10-02
• "Who ___ and mends, to God himself commends": Cervantes — 2023-07-08
• Makes a mistake — 2023-07-04
• Isn't right — 2023-06-24
• Has it wrong — 2023-06-02
• Goofs up — 2023-04-24
• Goofs up — 2023-03-19
• Mixes things up, say — 2023-03-17
• Calls someone by the wrong name, say — 2023-02-24
• Slips up — 2023-01-22
• Commits a fumble — 2023-01-09
• Does something accidentally, perhaps — 2022-12-02
• Makes a mistake — 2022-09-12
• Isn't right — 2022-07-08
• Muffs — 2022-05-25
• Has things backward, say — 2022-04-30
• Muffs — 2022-03-12
• Slips — 2022-02-12
• Goofs — 2021-12-21
• Messes up — 2021-09-12
• Slips — 2021-09-05
• Misses the mark — 2021-06-09
• Blunders — 2021-03-30
• Makes a boo-boo — 2021-03-02
• Blunders — 2021-01-11
• Chokes, say — 2021-01-01
• Makes a typo, say — 2020-12-27
• Goes off — 2020-12-20
• Slips — 2020-11-04
• Messes up — 2020-08-11