Historical clue formulations

• De-squeaked — 2023-06-11
• Like many baking sheets before baking — 2022-06-17
• No longer squeaky (one hopes!) — 2021-12-26
• De-squeaked — 2020-07-26
• Like bicycle chains — 2019-12-01
• Three sheets to the wind — 2018-06-17
• Pie-eyed — 2018-06-03
• Able to run smoothly, say — 2017-08-24
• Stewed — 2015-11-21
• Like a smooth-running machine — 2015-05-19
• Stinko — 2012-04-29
• Like some wrestlers' bodies — 2011-09-18
• Applied 3-in-One to — 2010-12-28
• Greased — 2010-12-22
• Like some bodybuilders' bodies — 2010-06-10
• Like some smoothly running machines — 2009-12-01
• Lubricated — 2007-09-03
• Drunk as a skunk — 2005-08-16
• Blotto — 2005-06-04
• Lubricated — 2004-10-04
• Lit — 2004-03-07
• Like a bike chain, usually — 2003-09-11
• Blotto — 2001-09-10
• Tipsy — 2001-07-08
• Roaring drunk — 2001-06-17
• Seeing pink elephants — 2000-09-21
• Snockered — 2000-02-20
• Blotto — 1999-06-17
• Tight — 1998-08-02
• Lit — 1998-06-20
• Like smooth-running machines — 1998-04-20
• Made smooth, in a way — 1998-04-05
• De-squeaked — 1997-09-01
• Half-seas over — 1996-11-13
• Feeling no pain — 1996-02-02
• Loosened up, in a way — 1995-06-28
• Tipsy — 1995-01-27
• Blotto — 1994-03-07