Historical clue formulations

• Self-effacing — 2025-11-30
• Low-key — 2021-05-29
• Far from extravagant — 2018-07-09
• Unlike a showboat — 2013-08-31
• Limited in amount — 2009-02-15
• Not given to self-promotion — 2007-07-30
• Not overdone — 2007-03-11
• Fair to middling — 2004-01-10
• Not boastful — 2000-10-17
• Far from glitzy — 1998-10-25
• Hardly given to exhibitionism — 1996-04-25