Historical clue formulations

• Depicting the world bleakly and cynically — 2026-08-29
• Form of detective fiction — 2026-08-16
• Film ___ — 2026-06-19
• Gritty genre — 2026-03-08
• Pinot ___ — 2026-02-16
• Dark crime genre — 2026-02-02
• Gritty film genre — 2026-01-13
• Word after film or pinot — 2025-09-14
• Genre for "Sunset Boulevard" — 2025-09-04
• Genre of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep" — 2025-08-01
• Genre for "Double Indemnity" — 2025-07-24
• Neo-___ (film genre) — 2025-04-29
• Gritty film — 2023-07-19
• Blanc's opposite — 2023-07-16
• Crime genre — 2023-04-25
• Pinot ___ — 2023-04-12
• Dark film genre — 2023-03-07
• "The Third Man," for one — 2023-02-17
• Hard-boiled film genre — 2022-12-22
• Counterpart of rouge, in roulette — 2022-07-12
• Dark film genre — 2021-11-08
• Black: Fr. — 2021-07-12
• Film ___ — 2020-08-08
• Hardly a rosy picture — 2020-04-23
• Black: Fr. — 2020-02-24
• Like some detective fiction — 2019-12-05
• Neo-___ (film genre) — 2019-09-11
• Pinot ___ — 2019-08-26
• Crime film genre — 2019-03-28
• Modifier for "film" or "pinot" — 2019-02-20
• Film ___ — 2019-01-11
• "Strangers on a Train" film genre — 2018-12-12
• 1950's "The Asphalt Jungle," for one — 2018-08-29
• Gritty genre — 2018-07-26
• Pinot ___ — 2018-02-12
• Couleur du café — 2018-01-21
• Neo-___ — 2018-01-19
• Genre for "Chinatown" or "The Big Sleep" — 2018-01-17
• Pinot ___ — 2017-11-22
• Opposite of blanc — 2017-11-19
• Café ___ — 2017-11-02
• Genre for the novelist Patricia Highsmith — 2017-02-22
• Crime film genre — 2017-02-02
• Dark film genre, informally — 2017-01-25
• Genre that "The Long Goodbye" is based on — 2016-09-23
• Detective fiction genre — 2016-09-19
• Rouge alternative — 2016-05-06
• Dark film genre — 2016-02-08
• Rouge counterpart — 2015-01-02
• Black: Fr. — 2014-02-03