Historical clue formulations

• Get the better of — 2026-02-22
• What a dog might do to its owner — 2025-12-11
• Get ready to seal, as an envelope — 2025-05-07
• Taste, as a lollipop — 2023-06-14
• Short jazz riff — 2021-06-18
• Jazz riff — 2020-01-04
• Spank — 2016-12-27
• Defeat — 2014-10-16
• Beat — 2013-09-22
• Show of affection from a dog — 2013-07-29
• Beat — 2010-03-28
• Beat soundly — 2005-05-24
• Salt ___ — 2004-05-26
• Spank — 2003-08-20
• Whup — 2003-01-04
• Drub — 1997-05-06
• Trounce — 1995-10-29
• Shellac — 1995-02-15