Historical clue formulations

• New York university based in Manhattan — 2025-12-07
• Rate — 2025-10-30
• Tempo — 2025-10-26
• Engage in a bit of back-and-forth? — 2025-09-10
• Walk back and forth nervously — 2025-02-17
• Unit in a duel — 2023-08-02
• Rate — 2022-12-20
• Walk back and forth — 2022-10-31
• What's picked up in a hurry? — 2022-03-10
• Focus of a marathon runner's training — 2021-08-01
• Pick up the ___ — 2021-06-29
• Rate — 2021-06-12
• With 5-Across, warm-up circuits for race car drivers — 2020-09-16
• Walk back and forth — 2020-05-12
• Duel unit — 2020-04-07
• Tempo — 2020-02-23
• Clip — 2019-12-11
• Walk nervously back and forth — 2019-11-25
• Going rate — 2019-08-08
• Something to set or pick up — 2019-07-12
• Tempo — 2018-09-26
• Tempo — 2018-09-17
• Walk back and forth nervously — 2018-07-16
• Go back and forth — 2017-12-28
• Tempo — 2017-10-30
• Distance unit of about 30 inches — 2017-03-18
• Tempo — 2017-01-08
• What a lead runner sets — 2016-12-25
• Marathoner's concern — 2016-11-08
• Tempo — 2016-11-04
• Tempo — 2016-09-08
• Marathon runner's stat — 2016-01-26
• Duel unit — 2015-07-15
• Distance unit on a treasure map — 2015-03-24
• Step — 2015-03-14
• Tempo — 2015-02-16
• Speed — 2014-08-03
• Clip — 2013-09-11
• R.I.P. part — 2011-01-14
• Eight minutes/mile in a marathon is a good one — 2010-11-10
• Tempo — 2010-08-29
• Tempo — 2010-08-24
• Walk a hole in the carpet, maybe — 2010-03-22
• A slowpoke may be asked to pick it up — 2009-11-26
• Wear out the carpet, maybe — 2009-09-22
• Work off nervous energy, in a way — 2009-05-10
• Double time, for one — 2009-02-10
• Kind of car seen at Indy — 2009-01-19
• A cadet might be asked to pick it up — 2008-11-30
• A sergeant might ask soldiers to pick it up — 2008-10-30