Historical clue formulations

• Starting points of many Jewish observances — 2026-09-10
• Holiday preceders — 2026-05-13
• Preceding periods — 2025-10-10
• What are ahead of their times? — 2025-09-13
• Days of anticipation — 2025-09-12
• Anticipatory times — 2025-08-29
• Times to look forward — 2025-07-26
• Beforetimes? — 2025-07-20
• December has two big ones — 2025-07-10
• Holiday lead-ins — 2025-05-09
• Holidays that aren't typically federal holidays — 2025-02-04
• Preceding times — 2024-12-29
• Times for holiday parties — 2024-12-12
• Some nights of celebration — 2024-02-11
• Brinks — 2023-05-07
• Nights before holidays — 2023-02-27
• Some sleepless nights — 2022-10-22
• Times outside office hours, in personals — 2022-10-02
• The before-times? — 2022-09-25
• Big nights before big days — 2022-06-14
• Cusps — 2022-05-28
• Some big nights — 2022-03-03
• Notable nights — 2022-02-02
• Dec. 24 and 31, e.g. — 2022-01-16
• They're ahead of their time — 2021-08-07
• Anticipatory times — 2021-05-07
• Times for some vigils — 2021-03-07
• Dark times, informally — 2020-11-10
• Times before the present? — 2020-01-12
• Brinks — 2020-01-05
• Big nights — 2019-09-28
• Nights when kids have a hard time falling asleep — 2019-07-03
• Special holiday periods — 2019-06-26
• After-work times, in classifieds — 2019-04-02
• December 24 and 31, e.g. — 2018-07-02
• Lead-in days — 2018-06-13
• Cusps — 2018-05-25
• Times when you might have trouble sleeping — 2018-03-22
• Times of fitful sleep, maybe — 2017-12-23
• Two big nights in December — 2017-09-12
• Anticipatory days — 2017-06-04
• Typical after-work times, for short — 2016-09-22
• Cusps — 2016-06-19
• Anticipatory times — 2016-01-17
• Nervous nights, maybe — 2015-10-06
• Holiday lead-ins — 2015-08-30
• Night times, in classifieds — 2015-05-19
• Brinks — 2014-11-20
• Times in classifieds — 2014-10-11
• After-work times, in classifieds — 2011-08-29