Historical clue formulations

• Word with pan, pump or paint — 2026-08-19
• Component of most salad dressings — 2026-07-01
• Little squirt in a garage, say — 2026-03-17
• Painter's medium — 2026-02-22
• Tin Man's need — 2025-12-29
• Mideast export — 2025-12-22
• Saudi Arabian export — 2025-08-25
• Common fossil fuel — 2025-07-10
• Vegetable ___ — 2025-06-08
• Upton Sinclair novel — 2025-05-29
• Industry in "There Will Be Blood" — 2025-05-22
• Frying need — 2025-04-20
• Painting material — 2025-04-03
• Upton Sinclair novel that inspired the film "There Will Be Blood" — 2025-03-14
• Essential ___ — 2025-01-19
• Commodity measured in barrels — 2024-10-28
• Peanut ___ — 2024-08-03
• Ingredient in vinaigrette — 2024-06-25
• Coconut extraction — 2024-05-05
• How John D. Rockefeller made his money — 2024-04-10
• Squeak stopper — 2024-03-04
• Dipstick coating — 2024-02-05
• Frying need — 2024-01-08
• With 40-Across, offshore work site — 2024-01-03
• Stuff refineries refine — 2023-11-12
• "Data is the new ___" (popular wisdom in economics) — 2023-08-16
• Essential ___ (sandalwood or lavender) — 2023-08-08
• Concerning driveway sight — 2023-07-09
• Massage parlor supply — 2023-05-18
• Many a Rembrandt — 2023-05-17
• Medium for van Gogh — 2023-05-16
• ___ stick (frequent Jean-Michel Basquiat medium) — 2023-05-06
• Peanut product — 2023-04-26
• Cruet contents — 2023-04-16
• Palm product — 2023-03-12
• "Black gold" or "Texas tea" — 2023-01-04
• Slick substance — 2022-12-20
• Falafel-making need — 2022-11-23
• Cooking staple — 2022-11-20
• Word with change or spill — 2022-11-15
• Aioli ingredient … or three of the letters in "aioli" — 2022-09-26
• Something you might strike — 2022-08-26
• Product of Shell or ExxonMobil — 2022-07-04
• Word with snake or salad — 2022-05-05
• Word with change or color — 2022-04-16
• ExxonMobil's business — 2021-11-22
• Kind of change — 2021-09-18
• De-squeak — 2021-09-13
• Industry that encourages strikes? — 2021-07-28
• What a dipstick measures the level of — 2021-07-12