Historical clue formulations

• Who pays all legal costs under the so-called "English rule" — 2024-08-01
• What two fingers in the shape of an "L" can mean — 2024-06-03
• 1993 Beck single — 2024-05-19
• Also-ran — 2023-07-05
• Schlump — 2022-01-22
• Second or third person? — 2021-11-11
• Paper, vis-à-vis scissors — 2021-01-02
• Juvenile put-down — 2018-04-21
• Deadbeat, e.g. — 2017-05-02
• Dud — 2016-12-18
• Sad sack — 2015-11-15
• Put-down from Donald Trump — 2015-10-12
• Schlub — 2015-06-30
• X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g. — 2015-04-12
• Schlemiel — 2014-02-19
• Sad sack — 2013-10-06
• Also-ran — 2013-08-06
• One who can't catch a break — 2013-08-05
• #2 or #3, say — 2011-05-01
• #2 or #3 — 2010-08-08
• 36-Down, notably — 2010-04-23
• Bottom dog — 2009-04-28
• Deadbeat — 2009-01-04
• One who doesn't go past a semi? — 2006-12-30
• Sad sack — 2006-01-18
• The one with 0 in 7-0 — 2005-12-27
• Doofus — 2005-09-19
• Terse putdown — 2005-07-30
• Dewey, to Truman — 2005-06-07
• Dweeb — 2004-05-25
• Schlemiel — 2003-10-25
• Schlimazel — 2001-10-27
• Schlemiel — 2001-08-23
• Good sport, perhaps — 2001-03-09
• Short-straw drawer — 2000-11-28
• Short-straw drawer — 2000-05-28
• Schlemiel — 1999-02-17
• Not a medalist — 1998-07-08
• Schlemiel — 1997-02-21
• Vanquished — 1996-11-08
• Schlemiel — 1996-02-15
• The Beatles' "I'm a ____" — 1995-12-15
• Misfit — 1995-01-11