Historical clue formulations

• Ukrainian seaport, in an older spelling — 2026-09-07
• Texas setting for 2004's "Friday Night Lights" — 2026-05-05
• Texas city in the book and film "Friday Night Lights" — 2025-06-23
• Texas city that inspired "Friday Night Lights" — 2024-11-03
• Major Ukrainian port known as the "Pearl of the Black Sea" — 2021-09-13
• Port on the Black Sea — 2021-07-11
• Former Soviet naval base — 2019-12-28
• City in Texas or Ukraine — 2019-09-15
• Old Soviet naval base site — 2019-05-29
• Frederick Forsyth's "The ___ File" — 2018-07-22
• 1941 siege target — 2018-01-21
• Ukrainian city on the Black Sea — 2017-12-26
• Setting for Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" — 2017-04-29
• Frederick Forsyth thriller "The ___ File" — 2016-08-20
• City on the Black Sea — 2016-07-18
• Texas city in the movie "Friday Night Lights" — 2016-05-01
• Texas city named after a Ukrainian city — 2014-10-20
• Seat of Ector County, Tex. — 2014-07-11
• "The Battleship Potemkin" locale — 2014-02-09
• Black Sea port — 2013-11-21
• Texas oil city — 2013-06-16
• Texas or Ukraine city — 2012-11-19
• City in Ukraine or Texas — 2012-10-30
• Old Soviet naval base site — 2012-10-29
• Ukrainian port whose staircase is a setting for "The Battleship Potemkin" — 2012-05-07
• Old Soviet naval base site — 2012-03-25
• "Potemkin" port — 2011-06-01
• "The Battleship Potemkin" setting — 2011-04-03
• Black Sea port — 2011-01-18
• "The Battleship Potemkin" port — 2010-07-27
• Black Sea port — 2010-07-05
• 1905 revolt setting — 2010-04-02
• City on the Black Sea — 2009-08-17
• Stalin named it a "hero city" after W.W. II — 2009-05-10
• Potemkin mutiny city — 2008-11-11
• Ukrainian port city — 2008-09-30
• Black Sea port — 2008-02-27
• City on the Permian Basin — 2007-07-20
• Birthplace of Yakov Smirnoff — 2007-05-19
• Texas city — 2006-12-24
• Texas city named for a city in Ukraine — 2006-11-20
• Black Sea port — 2006-08-09
• The Pearl of the Black Sea — 2006-05-28
• Texas oil city — 2006-05-17
• City on the Black Sea — 2006-04-17
• Sight from the Black Sea — 2006-02-01
• Site of a historic 1905 revolt — 2005-10-16
• Black Sea resort — 2005-05-03
• "Little ___," 1994 Russian-American film drama — 2005-05-01
• Black Sea port — 2005-04-05