Historical clue formulations

• Discover by chance — 2025-09-03
• Flirt with — 2025-01-26
• Suddenly think of — 2024-03-31
• Suddenly think of — 2023-07-21
• Arrive at, as an idea — 2022-10-30
• Discover fortuitously — 2022-04-15
• More than flirt with — 2022-04-01
• Discover unexpectedly — 2021-08-25
• Try to pick up — 2020-12-15
• Flirt with — 2020-05-20
• Make a pass at — 2020-03-30
• Flirt with at a bar, say — 2019-09-10
• Discover serendipitously — 2019-08-10
• Discover almost by chance, as a solution — 2018-12-31
• Make a pass at — 2017-05-23
• Chat up at a bar, say — 2016-03-01
• Make advances toward — 2016-02-21
• Tried to pick up — 2012-10-18
• Discover, as a solution — 2012-04-20
• Think of, to some surprise — 2011-12-09
• Make a pass at — 2011-05-24
• Drop a line to? — 2011-04-09
• Discover by chance — 2009-04-20
• Showed interest in, as at a bar — 2006-11-06
• Try to pick up — 2006-04-01
• Try to pick up, as at a bar — 2004-04-05
• Proposition, slangily — 2003-04-10
• Woo in an unwelcome way — 2002-07-22
• Hand a line to, say — 2000-12-17
• Make a pass at — 2000-08-07
• Make a pass at — 2000-01-06
• Try to pick up — 1998-06-13
• Arrive at, as a solution — 1997-05-11
• Try to pick up — 1996-08-04
• Try to pick up — 1996-06-18
• Harass, in a way — 1995-02-03