Historical clue formulations

• Very cold and wet — 2025-10-28
• Like winter roads, at times — 2025-07-14
• Unfriendly, as a relationship — 2025-01-16
• In need of salt, say — 2024-12-26
• Good for skating, but bad for driving — 2024-11-26
• Like 30-Down — 2024-08-23
• Beyond chill — 2024-04-02
• Like roads in need of salting — 2024-03-04
• Dripping in jewelry, slangily — 2023-06-25
• Unwelcoming — 2023-05-03
• Unsalted, perhaps — 2022-11-05
• Unfriendly — 2022-05-22
• Not friendly — 2021-12-05
• Far from friendly — 2021-09-05
• Noticeably unfriendly — 2021-07-22
• Standoffish — 2021-02-17
• Treacherous, as winter roads — 2020-09-15
• Like the planet Hoth in "The Empire Strikes Back" — 2020-07-16
• Aloof — 2020-07-10
• Frigid — 2020-05-26
• Unwelcoming — 2020-03-12
• Hardly welcoming — 2019-05-22
• Unfriendly — 2019-04-25
• Supercool? — 2018-12-26
• Like some winter highways — 2018-12-10
• Quite standoffish — 2018-08-21
• Slippery, as winter roads — 2017-01-16
• Subzero, maybe — 2016-09-25
• Very standoffish — 2016-09-14
• Standoffish — 2016-07-17
• Dangerous, as winter sidewalks — 2016-01-04
• Frigid — 2015-12-15
• Emotionally distant — 2015-10-04
• Like Arctic waters — 2015-06-30
• Treacherous, as winter roads — 2014-11-17
• Standoffish — 2014-07-22
• Standoffish — 2014-07-06
• Frozen over — 2014-06-01
• Slippery, as winter roads — 2013-02-25
• Distant — 2012-11-21
• Like some stares ... or stairs in the winter — 2012-11-19
• Less than cordial — 2012-08-01
• Frigid — 2012-06-04
• Frigid — 2012-04-30
• Dangerous to drive on, say — 2011-12-09
• Like some stares — 2010-07-13
• Bitterly cold — 2010-04-11
• Slippery, as winter sidewalks — 2010-02-08
• Not offering traction, in a way — 2009-04-12
• Far from welcoming — 2009-01-21