Historical clue formulations

• Like slow filers and fast drivers, at times — 2025-09-28
• Mulcted — 2022-10-29
• Like speeders, often — 2022-04-22
• Docked, in a way — 2021-11-18
• Made to pay as punishment — 2018-12-03
• Like many traffic violators in court — 2014-01-28
• Penalized for a driving violation, say — 2013-11-25
• Slapped in court? — 2007-04-04
• Penalized, as a speeder — 2004-05-04
• Penalized — 2002-05-08
• Punished in addition to giving jail time — 1999-11-15
• Penalized — 1996-12-01
• Let off easy, maybe — 1996-03-10
• Docked, in a way — 1995-06-11