Historical clue formulations

• Might — 2025-11-29
• ___ Day (European festival) — 2025-02-01
• Might — 2023-08-05
• About seven or eight weeks before 5-Down — 2022-12-08
• Suffragist and abolitionist Abby ___ Alcott — 2022-05-15
• Shortest month of the year — 2021-12-15
• Can alternative — 2021-02-17
• When the Kentucky Derby is held — 2021-02-10
• When the National Day of Prayer is celebrated — 2020-11-14
• Hedging word — 2020-06-06
• Prime minister between Cameron and Johnson — 2020-05-05
• Johnson's predecessor as British P.M. — 2019-12-20
• Could — 2019-05-04
• British P.M. beginning in 2016 — 2019-04-24
• When the French Open starts — 2018-12-21
• Last full month of spring — 2018-12-04
• With 62-Down, a spring festival — 2017-05-15
• June preceder — 2016-10-31
• ___-December romance — 2016-09-20
• Might — 2016-01-14
• "___ I?" — 2015-08-29
• Kentucky Derby month — 2015-08-24
• Peter Parker's aunt in "Spider-Man" — 2015-08-12
• Month — 2015-01-22
• Are allowed to — 2014-11-07
• "If I ___ ..." — 2014-08-30
• Month of the Indianapolis 500 — 2011-06-20
• Month of the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500 — 2011-06-13
• New Jersey's Cape ___ — 2011-04-20
• Kentucky Derby month — 2011-04-18
• Spider-Man's aunt — 2010-08-08
• Period named for an earth goddess — 2010-02-26
• <-- What this is, on a calendar — 2009-07-30
• "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of ___": Shak. — 2009-07-09
• Kentucky Derby time — 2009-02-06
• Blooming period — 2008-12-19
• Might — 2007-06-24
• Indy 500 time — 2006-05-24
• Memorial Day setting — 2005-03-23
• ___ Day — 2004-12-30
• Word of possibility — 2004-12-19
• Indianapolis 500 time — 2004-03-16
• Kentucky Derby time — 2003-08-06
• When to celebrate Armed Forces Day — 2003-05-04
• Fifth of 12 — 2000-04-27
• Busy time at Indy — 1999-12-09
• What "5" can mean — 1999-09-05
• Fifth of twelve — 1999-06-19
• Word of indecision — 1999-01-28
• Word of possibility — 1999-01-03