Historical clue formulations

• Lifeless — 2026-05-02
• Having lost all its fizz — 2026-02-07
• Opposite of hilly — 2026-01-05
• Too low, musically — 2024-09-01
• Lacking fizz, as soda — 2023-10-16
• Lackluster — 2023-09-17
• Free of fizz — 2022-09-04
• You might take a lift to one — 2022-01-09
• Out of tune ... or bubbles — 2020-12-13
• Unchanged, as on an earnings report — 2020-12-11
• Outright — 2019-10-04
• Sharp's counterpart, in music — 2019-08-12
• Down a half step, say — 2019-02-19
• Dead-tired? — 2017-01-03
• Unshiny — 2015-05-17
• Like some fees and feet — 2015-04-30
• With 24-Down, blowout result — 2014-09-02
• *Smooth — 2012-12-10
• Needing to get keyed up? — 2011-03-04
• Motorist's woe — 2011-02-10
• Needing tuning, maybe — 2010-07-25
• One way to be turned down — 2010-07-09
• Fizzless, as a Coke — 2010-06-28
• What a 17-Across might get assistance with — 2009-06-26
• Unchanged — 2008-12-12
• Driver's headache — 2008-02-06
• Kansaslike — 2007-03-26
• Showing no growth — 2007-01-31
• Out of fizz — 2006-02-23
• Pitched too low — 2005-04-05
• Off-key, in a way — 2004-08-24
• Fizzless, as a soft drink — 2004-08-16
• Cyclist's problem — 2004-06-30
• Like some rates — 2004-02-14
• Apartment, to Brits — 2003-10-21
• Fizzless — 2003-01-19
• Apartment — 2002-12-15
• Sharp's counterpart — 2002-04-22
• Motorist's woe — 2001-08-08
• Blowout result — 2001-05-19
• Like a pancake — 2000-08-02
• Fizzless — 2000-03-02
• Like the world, to the ancients — 1999-07-21
• Like the world to pre-Columbians — 1999-02-22
• Off-pitch — 1999-01-27
• Like earnings in some reports — 1999-01-03
• Fizzless — 1998-10-21
• Unexciting — 1998-04-17
• Holding steady — 1997-08-21
• Lacking fizz — 1996-08-25