Historical clue formulations

• High degree — 2026-08-05
• Degree for many a prof — 2025-08-18
• Post-M.A. pursuit — 2025-03-10
• Common deg. for a professor — 2024-07-23
• Kind of candidate — 2024-07-21
• Research scientist's deg. — 2024-07-02
• Academic's credential — 2023-11-09
• Indication of learnedness, for short — 2023-04-26
• Many a prof — 2023-02-18
• Third degree? — 2023-02-07
• High degree — 2023-01-19
• Hood wearer at a graduation, for short — 2022-10-03
• Academic's degree — 2022-03-21
• Many a prof has one — 2022-03-17
• Many a college prof — 2021-11-16
• Utmost degree? — 2021-10-16
• Prof's degree — 2021-08-15
• Professor's deg. — 2020-11-30
• Reward for a successful defense, in brief — 2020-11-04
• Goal after a master's, for short — 2020-10-05
• Woodrow Wilson was the only U.S. president to have one — 2020-01-06
• Master's follower — 2019-09-20
• Queen guitarist Brian May has one in astrophysics — 2019-07-17
• Candidate's goal, for short — 2019-05-04
• Successful defender, in academia — 2019-01-23
• High degree — 2018-12-10
• Goal of many a candidate — 2018-01-25
• High degree — 2017-11-23
• Deg. that requires a defense — 2017-08-15
• Woodrow Wilson was the only U.S. prez to have one — 2016-10-30
• Result of many years of study, for short — 2016-08-21
• Nth degree? — 2016-07-10
• Prof's degree — 2016-05-23
• "Mr. Jock, TV quiz ___, bags few lynx" (classic pangram) — 2015-04-20
• Deg. held by Woodrow Wilson — 2014-06-04
• M.A. follow-up, maybe — 2013-12-17
• Advanced deg. — 2013-11-24
• T.A.'s pursuit, maybe — 2013-06-21
• Ultimate degree? — 2012-07-12
• What an M.A. might go on to earn — 2012-06-04
• Deg. for a prof — 2012-05-21
• Scholar's deg. — 2012-05-15
• Advanced deg. — 2012-04-23
• High degree — 2012-02-15
• A good defense may result in it, briefly — 2011-09-02
• Degree after an M.A., perhaps — 2011-08-01
• Woodrow Wilson is the only U.S. president to have one — 2011-06-21
• Many a prof — 2010-11-26
• Advanced deg. — 2010-05-04
• Third degree? — 2010-03-16