Historical clue formulations

• Coat on a tip? — 2026-06-05
• Smoothness, so to speak — 2024-04-13
• Spiff up — 2015-03-22
• Shoe shiner — 2013-10-24
• Touch up, like a candidate for office? — 2011-12-06
• *Shine — 2011-03-10
• Like kielbasa and pierogi — 2011-02-01
• Shoeboy's offering — 2008-09-25
• Buff — 2005-09-04
• Beeswax — 2000-07-16