Historical clue formulations

• Hold close — 2026-07-03
• Hold dear, perhaps — 2025-10-12
• Hold close to the heart — 2025-04-22
• Greet warmly — 2024-07-12
• Keep close to — 2024-06-19
• O, on a letter — 2024-02-09
• Common airport greeting — 2023-11-07
• What "O" might stand for — 2023-03-26
• Warm greeting — 2022-11-01
• Affectionate greeting — 2022-09-18
• Follow closely, as the curb — 2020-10-25
• Greeting from Grandma — 2019-03-18
• What an "O" means in XOXO — 2019-02-26
• Clasp — 2018-09-18
• It brings people together — 2017-08-06
• What "O" may symbolize — 2017-07-08
• Warm greeting — 2017-03-06
• Stick close to — 2016-12-04
• Bear ___ — 2015-07-02
• O after an X, say — 2015-06-12
• Warm greeting — 2015-06-02
• Response of empathy — 2015-04-16
• Stick close to — 2013-11-30
• O, symbolically — 2011-08-25
• Warm embrace — 2010-04-26
• Warm welcome — 2010-02-14
• Show of affection — 2008-01-17
• Embrace — 2006-10-05
• "Welcome home" greeting — 2006-04-17
• Clutch — 2006-04-15
• Bear greeting? — 2002-02-13
• Congeniality gesture — 2000-10-12
• Warm hello — 1999-11-25
• Consoler's offering — 1999-08-14
• Warm welcome — 1998-08-24
• Cling to — 1997-09-18