Historical clue formulations

• Set piece — 2026-09-18
• Stage item — 2026-05-03
• Item on a stage — 2025-02-17
• Macbeth's dagger or Desdemona's handkerchief, e.g. — 2023-06-11
• Play thing? — 2023-04-09
• Blue diamond in "Titanic," e.g. — 2023-03-05
• Item on a stage — 2022-10-24
• Hold (up) — 2021-07-10
• Stage item — 2020-04-27
• Skull, for Hamlet when he says "Alas, poor Yorick!" — 2020-03-09
• Comedian's visual — 2019-09-23
• Top hat, to a magician — 2019-06-12
• Item held by an actor — 2018-06-04
• Play thing — 2017-10-18
• Gun full of blanks, maybe — 2016-07-10
• Kind of plane — 2016-04-08
• Play thing — 2015-08-23
• Theater stage item — 2015-03-30
• What holds up well? — 2015-01-31
• California ballot measure, informally — 2014-07-21
• Cauldron or sword in "Macbeth," say — 2013-08-06
• Holdup? — 2012-06-30
• Stagehand's responsibility — 2012-04-02
• Top hat, cane or monocle — 2011-07-14
• Groucho's cigar, e.g. — 2010-04-28
• Set piece — 2009-02-08
• Play thing — 2008-08-01
• Telephone on a stage, e.g. — 2008-05-27
• Support, with "up" — 2006-06-18
• Set item — 2005-09-09
• Brace — 2004-02-05
• Skull in "Hamlet," e.g. — 2003-09-16
• Charlie Chaplin's cane, e.g. — 2002-05-19
• Play thing — 2002-04-10
• Item in an actor's hand — 2001-12-24
• Play thing — 2001-09-09
• Support, with "up" — 1999-11-15
• Stage device — 1999-10-25
• Stage item — 1999-09-28
• Stage piece — 1999-09-26
• Support, with "up" — 1999-09-06
• Stage accessory — 1998-10-12
• Yorick's skull, for one — 1997-08-07
• Shore (up) — 1996-12-22
• Kind of jet — 1996-09-22
• Hold (up) — 1996-06-03
• Support — 1996-02-27
• Stage piece — 1995-07-08
• Plaything — 1995-05-07