Historical clue formulations

• Cut finely — 2026-03-29
• Chop chop! — 2025-02-21
• Chop — 2020-09-18
• Cut into small pieces — 2020-03-05
• Chop finely — 2018-01-22
• Cut to bits — 2017-09-23
• With 45-Across, not be direct ... or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do? — 2017-06-08
• Finely prepare — 2014-09-13
• Chop up — 2014-06-11
• Chop to bits — 2013-07-23
• Chop finely — 2011-10-25
• Cut into tiny bits — 2010-01-05
• Cut into tiny bits — 2006-11-06
• Chop finely — 2006-06-15
• ___ pie — 2005-09-24
• Cut into tiny pieces — 2003-04-14
• Not use plainly — 2003-02-27
• Chop finely — 2002-03-12
• Kind of pie — 2001-03-21
• ___ words — 1998-12-04
• Not say directly — 1998-11-26
• Prepare garlic, perhaps — 1997-06-15
• Kind of pie — 1996-10-17
• Hash — 1995-10-06
• Kind of pie — 1994-11-27
• Hash — 1994-08-21
• Kind of meat — 1994-07-24
• Chop finely — 1994-06-23