Historical clue formulations

• Bottom of the food chain, say — 2025-08-19
• Rarely the winner in a nature documentary — 2024-03-07
• Wild catch? — 2023-12-21
• Small game, often — 2023-11-19
• Gazelle, to a cheetah — 2023-02-06
• Food, potentially — 2022-12-21
• Aphids, to ladybugs — 2021-10-03
• Seals, to great white sharks — 2021-05-04
• Small game, often — 2021-04-16
• They're low on the food chain — 2020-05-16
• Food chain link — 2020-05-10
• Game — 2020-02-29
• Hunted animals — 2020-02-12
• Gazelles, for cheetahs — 2019-10-28
• Quarry — 2018-12-31
• Potential dinner — 2018-07-29
• Hunted animal — 2018-06-25
• Game — 2018-02-14
• Hunted — 2017-03-17
• Flies, to spiders — 2016-08-08
• Wild catch? — 2016-06-24
• Sparrow, to a sparrow hawk — 2016-01-10
• Hunted — 2015-06-28
• Mice, to cats — 2013-05-07
• Rabbits, to eagles, e.g. — 2012-11-26
• Hunted — 2012-01-15
• Mice, to owls — 2011-10-11
• Little game, perhaps — 2011-08-19
• Elands, to lions — 2011-05-29
• Food chain part — 2010-08-21
• Part of a food chain — 2010-03-27
• Rodent, to a raptor — 2008-12-28
• Zebras, to lions — 2008-02-05
• Hunted animals — 2007-04-25
• Hunter's target — 2006-09-11
• Hunter's quarry — 2006-08-22
• Zebras, for lions — 2006-05-22
• Stalked one — 2004-07-29
• Target — 2004-01-18
• Mouse, to a 27-Across — 2004-01-06
• The hunted — 2003-09-29
• Quarry — 2003-09-21
• Moving targets? — 2003-08-10
• Whom a hunter hunts — 2003-07-28
• The hunted — 2001-10-30
• Mice, to cats — 2001-10-01
• Hunted — 2001-08-09
• Hunted animals — 2001-03-19
• The hunted — 2001-02-26
• Game, maybe — 2001-02-23