Historical clue formulations

• Early 2000s first lady — 2026-07-15
• Bush family member — 2026-03-01
• 21st-century first lady — 2025-10-18
• Autobiographical heroine of the "Little House" series — 2023-08-02
• Hillenbrand who wrote "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" — 2023-07-04
• Dern of 25-Across — 2023-03-07
• Tony-winning actress Benanti — 2023-02-14
• Dern of cinema — 2022-09-16
• First lady Bush — 2021-12-27
• ___ Bassi, first woman to earn a doctorate in science (University of Bologna, 1732) — 2021-06-25
• Oscar winner Dern — 2020-10-25
• Actress Linney of Netflix's "Ozark" — 2020-08-22
• Actress Prepon of "That '70s Show" — 2020-07-04
• ___ Kelly, Democratic governor of Kansas starting in 2019 — 2020-04-09
• ___ Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie" — 2020-02-23
• First lady before Michelle — 2019-12-17
• "Little House on the Prairie" girl — 2019-12-01
• ___ Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie" — 2019-11-07
• 1944 Gene Tierney classic — 2019-10-11
• Dern of "Big Little Lies" — 2019-09-25
• Actress Linney of "The Truman Show" — 2019-07-30
• Actress Linney in "Kinsey" — 2018-04-23
• First lady before Michelle — 2018-01-03
• Mrs. George W. Bush — 2017-09-11
• First lady after Hillary — 2017-03-20
• ___ Palmer ("Twin Peaks" victim) — 2017-02-26
• Advice-giving "Dr." of radio — 2017-02-14
• First lady before Michelle — 2016-03-06
• Bush in the Rose Garden, once — 2015-06-28
• Classic 1944 Otto Preminger film noir — 2015-06-11
• Dern of "Jurassic Park" — 2015-05-11
• First lady from Texas — 2014-12-21
• Bush who wrote "Spoken From the Heart" — 2014-01-05
• First lady before Michelle — 2013-10-08
• First lady before Michelle — 2012-07-30
• Opinionated Dr. ___ — 2011-11-17
• Michelle's predecessor — 2011-02-06
• Michelle's predecessor as first lady — 2010-11-03
• 1944 murder mystery directed by Otto Preminger — 2010-10-21
• Object of Petrarch's passion — 2010-09-15
• Bush with the memoir "Spoken From the Heart" — 2010-06-27
• *Former first lady [1945] — 2009-11-15
• 1944 film noir by Preminger — 2008-11-27
• "La Gioconda" mezzo-soprano — 2008-07-20
• Mrs. Bush — 2007-09-24
• First lady after Hillary — 2007-08-21
• First lady after Hillary — 2007-05-21
• One of the Bushes — 2006-08-29
• "Twin Peaks" victim ___ Palmer — 2005-09-11
• Mrs. Bush — 2005-04-11