Historical clue formulations

• Whitish — 2026-06-08
• Ashen — 2026-04-23
• Ashen-faced — 2025-07-22
• ___ in comparison — 2025-05-14
• Part of I.P.A. — 2024-11-27
• Susceptible to sunburn — 2024-10-28
• Washed out — 2024-06-15
• Washed out — 2024-01-30
• ___ blue dot (Earth, in a famous photograph) — 2023-12-15
• On the light side — 2023-11-15
• Lager descriptor — 2023-09-01
• Drained of color — 2023-02-13
• Word before "Blue Eyes" or "Blue Dot" in titles — 2021-10-21
• Like beige and lilac — 2021-02-25
• Lightish — 2021-02-17
• The "P" of 23-Down — 2018-05-23
• Draft choice — 2016-10-13
• Wan — 2015-11-24
• Ill-looking — 2015-07-30
• Not at all bright — 2015-04-04
• Susceptible to sunburn — 2015-02-10
• Not that bright — 2014-12-12
• Faint — 2014-10-17
• Blanched — 2014-04-19
• ___ ale — 2014-03-30
• Enclosing fence — 2011-10-22
• Seriously susceptible to sunburn — 2011-05-09
• Visibly terrified — 2010-11-09
• Washed out — 2010-04-18
• Cadaverous — 2009-11-07
• Washed out — 2008-10-02
• Ghostlike — 2008-09-21
• Ashen — 2008-02-05
• Like some ales — 2007-03-27
• Like 24-Across — 2007-01-05
• Hardly tanned — 2006-10-24
• New at the beach, maybe — 2006-05-21
• Washed out — 2006-04-14
• Whitish — 2006-03-23
• Whiten — 2004-03-24
• Hardly tanned — 2004-03-23
• Light — 2004-03-14
• Looking scared — 2003-12-03
• Not too bright — 2003-03-01
• Not brilliant — 2002-12-22
• Feeble — 2002-07-28
• Hardly tanned — 2002-05-14
• Far from ruddy — 2002-03-27
• Blanched — 2002-03-24
• Wan — 2001-09-26