Historical clue formulations

• Upper limit — 2025-09-14
• Uppermost limit — 2025-07-26
• 1600 for the SAT, informally — 2022-10-23
• Tops — 2022-01-16
• Upper limit — 2020-11-15
• "Mad ___" (Mel Gibson film) — 2019-08-12
• Upper extreme, informally — 2019-01-29
• Upper limit, for short — 2018-01-17
• Take to the limit, with "out" — 2018-01-04
• To the ___ (fully) — 2017-08-28
• Top limit, for short — 2017-07-30
• Upper limit, for short — 2016-11-02
• Highest setting, informally — 2016-03-28
• Highest amount, informally — 2015-03-23
• Reach the limit, with "out" — 2014-09-22
• Setting of 10, maybe — 2013-10-25
• Peak, slangily — 2012-08-22
• Top (out) — 2011-06-01
• To the ___ (fully) — 2010-10-18
• 10 on a 10-point scale, e.g. — 2008-11-13
• Mel Gibson's "mad" role — 2007-12-12
• Peak — 2007-11-09
• Peak, briefly — 2006-08-16
• At most, informally — 2003-07-30
• Credit card concern — 2002-11-28
• Upper limit, informally — 2002-11-03
• Nth degree — 2000-01-05
• Nth degree — 1999-08-10
• Fullest, slangily — 1998-11-01
• Abbr. on highway overpasses — 1998-03-19
• Reach capacity, slangily, with "out" — 1997-04-06
• 1979 Mel Gibson role — 1995-08-26
• Nth degree — 1994-12-20