Historical clue formulations

• Intimidating words — 2026-09-19
• Alternatively … !!! — 2026-02-12
• Menacing words — 2025-03-28
• Ending words of an ultimatum — 2024-12-23
• End of a threat — 2024-07-30
• Ominous end of a threat — 2023-07-24
• Unnamed alternative — 2022-12-16
• Threatening words — 2021-02-19
• End of an ultimatum — 2021-02-09
• End of a threat — 2021-01-24
• Bully's threat — 2020-11-29
• Last words of a threat — 2020-05-04
• Ominous phrase — 2020-04-18
• Words in a threat — 2018-11-28
• Fear-inducing phrase — 2018-09-15
• "Otherwise ...!" — 2017-10-22
• Ominous parting words — 2017-10-20
• Ultimatum's end — 2017-02-21
• Ultimatum ending — 2016-11-23
• Words that may elicit a worried gulp — 2016-05-07
• "Otherwise ... !!!" — 2015-12-24
• Open-ended threat — 2015-08-11
• Intimidating words — 2014-07-13
• Ominous final words — 2014-05-09
• Ominous end of a threat — 2014-04-29
• Ultimatum words — 2013-08-19
• "Otherwise ..." — 2013-06-06
• Unsettling last words — 2011-08-07
• Ultimatum words — 2011-01-24
• Words of intimidation — 2010-02-26
• "And you'd better listen!" — 2010-02-14
• Blackmailer's words — 2010-01-01
• Bully's warning — 2009-08-20
• Ultimatum closer — 2009-05-17
• Ominous words — 2009-03-13
• Words often accompanied by a 45-Across — 2009-01-17
• Threat ender — 2008-09-02
• Ultimatum's end — 2008-08-03
• Goon's last words — 2007-11-17
• Unfinished threat — 2007-03-18
• Unspecified, but invariably unpleasant, alternative — 2007-01-05
• Bully's final words — 2006-09-08
• Ominous-sounding phrase — 2006-05-07
• "… and I mean it!" — 2006-03-05
• Ultimatum ender — 2005-08-18
• "…!!" — 2005-07-23
• Veiled threat — 2005-03-13
• Unspecified alternative — 2005-02-27
• "You don't even want to know the alternative!" — 2004-12-12
• Ultimatum words — 2004-12-06