Historical clue formulations

• Not nearly as cool — 2025-12-02
• Debussy work whose title is French for "The Sea" — 2017-12-26
• Debussy composition — 2016-04-24
• Not so awesome — 2015-10-04
• Less funny, as a joke — 2014-07-14
• Popular Debussy piece — 2013-02-02
• Debussy opus — 2007-03-25
• Worse, as excuses go — 2004-11-17
• Not so good, as an excuse — 2003-10-13
• Less plausible, as an excuse — 2000-01-17
• Not so believable — 1999-10-27
• Not so believable, as an excuse — 1999-05-31
• Poorer, as excuses go — 1998-12-14
• Less convincing, as an excuse — 1997-08-19
• Debussy work — 1997-03-12
• More hobbled — 1996-12-03
• Less convincing — 1996-09-11
• Debussy opus — 1995-10-29
• More inadequate — 1993-12-25