Historical clue formulations

• Like a good sponge cake — 2025-12-26
• Adjective that's been called "one of the most hated words in the English language" — 2024-07-25
• Damp — 2024-03-25
• Like towelettes in a fast-food restaurant — 2023-03-16
• Like a tasty cake — 2022-07-31
• Dewy — 2022-04-28
• Clammy — 2021-05-20
• Like good cakes and bad cellars — 2019-09-27
• How cigars should be kept, say aficionados — 2017-09-21
• A little teary — 2017-09-03
• Like a basted turkey — 2017-08-23
• Like some brownies and towelettes — 2016-05-22
• Dewy, e.g. — 2015-03-17
• Like a well-prepared turkey — 2014-09-17
• Dewy — 2013-06-30
• Like towelettes, typically — 2010-04-28
• Like a towelette — 2009-02-25
• Dampish — 2008-08-10
• Like lip-glossed lips — 2008-03-30
• Like a good turkey — 2006-02-03
• Tearful — 2005-02-26
• Like most lips — 2005-01-02
• Like tasty cake — 2004-07-20
• A wee bit wet — 2004-05-05
• Like fresh brownies — 2003-05-08
• Teary — 2002-03-17
• Like a good cake — 1999-02-05
• Having tears — 1998-07-26
• Like a good cake — 1996-04-21
• Humidified — 1994-11-04
• Teary — 1994-02-20