Historical clue formulations

• Main ingredient in the Japanese liqueur umeshu — 2025-05-08
• Desirable and profitable, as an assignment — 2025-02-14
• Fruit used to make slivovitz — 2022-12-20
• Fruit in the William Carlos Williams poem "This Is Just to Say" — 2021-08-18
• Shade of purple — 2021-08-01
• Choice — 2020-08-07
• Professor in a library, perhaps — 2020-03-25
• Desirable, as a job — 2020-01-13
• Coveted, as a position — 2019-06-12
• Juicy fruit with a pit — 2017-12-11
• Color close to puce — 2017-05-27
• Coveted, as a position — 2017-05-23
• Purple shade — 2016-06-16
• Professor ___, Clue suspect — 2015-11-03
• Job everyone wants — 2014-04-06
• Desirable, as a job — 2013-04-25
• Choice job — 2011-09-17
• Extremely desirable — 2008-05-31
• Windfall — 2007-10-11
• Coveted — 2006-06-30
• Pudding fruit — 2005-12-12
• Desirable thing — 2003-11-12
• Coveted prize — 2003-08-05
• Choice assignment — 2002-03-24
• Prune, before drying — 2002-02-18
• Jack Horner's find — 2001-04-23
• Prized — 2001-02-11
• Purple color — 1999-08-17
• Prune, formerly — 1998-10-19
• Horner's find — 1996-10-20
• Jack Horner's surprise — 1994-08-03
• High-paying easy job — 1994-06-29
• Deep purple — 1993-12-23