Historical clue formulations

• Piece in the game Battleship — 2025-12-19
• String tightener on a guitar — 2025-09-17
• Identify (as) — 2025-08-01
• Game piece in Mastermind — 2024-08-22
• Part of a violin quartet? — 2024-08-02
• Steely Dan hit that charted for 19 straight weeks — 2024-04-28
• Throw — 2024-03-07
• Cribbage marker — 2024-02-25
• Brit's clothespin — 2023-03-12
• Cribbage marker — 2023-01-01
• Cribbage score keeper — 2022-07-13
• Marker in the game Battleship — 2021-06-05
• Cribbage scoring piece — 2020-06-15
• Coatroom item — 2019-07-11
• Part for tuning a guitar — 2019-03-20
• Hard throw, in baseball — 2018-05-16
• Violin's string tightener — 2016-09-13
• Identify (as) — 2015-12-22
• Cribbage board item — 2015-05-27
• Good name for a baseball pitcher? — 2015-04-28
• Hatrack piece — 2015-03-16
• Identify — 2015-03-05
• Identify — 2014-04-11
• Square ___ — 2013-10-24
• Item to hang your hat on — 2012-08-13
• Cribbage marker — 2012-04-02
• Something to hang your hat on — 2012-02-21
• Tuning device — 2011-09-10
• Solitaire puzzle piece — 2011-06-12
• Accurate throw — 2010-09-15
• Simple hanger — 2009-11-18
• One of Captain Ahab's legs — 2009-09-15
• Part of a violin — 2009-07-30
• Mastermind game piece — 2009-03-01
• Many a pirate's appendage — 2008-08-03
• Identify, informally — 2008-04-18
• Place to hang one's hat — 2007-08-27
• Identify — 2006-06-15
• Good baseball throw — 2006-01-11
• Dowel — 2005-10-20
• Identify — 2005-08-28
• It may come out of left field — 2005-05-26
• Recognize, slangily — 2005-04-01
• Baseball throw — 2003-09-21
• Tuner on a viola — 2002-08-16
• Hard throw, in baseball — 2002-04-05
• Identify — 2002-03-24
• Game piece — 2002-02-17
• Dowel — 2001-12-26
• Identify, informally — 2000-06-09