Historical clue formulations

• "Need an ark? I Noah guy," e.g. — 2026-08-31
• Many a groan-inducing joke — 2026-01-13
• "The shoddy sandwich knife couldn't cut the mustard," e.g. — 2025-09-03
• "The Santa Clause" or "Legally Blonde" — 2025-08-30
• "I was reading a book about mazes ... I got lost in it," e.g. — 2025-06-20
• Bit of wit — 2024-11-29
• "My Zoom joke flopped … I guess it's not remotely funny," e.g. — 2024-10-28
• Many a dad joke — 2024-07-14
• "The lowest form of humor — when you don't think of it first," per Oscar Levant — 2023-01-04
• Wordplay joke — 2021-02-08
• Many a groan inducer — 2020-12-29
• Faux Fighters or Dread Zeppelin, e.g. — 2020-11-07
• Groan-worthy remark, say — 2018-08-01
• The clue for 58-Down, e.g. [sorry!] — 2017-08-15
• Ogden Nash specialty — 2017-07-27
• "Horse voice," e.g. — 2017-03-25
• One of "the highest form of literature," per Hitchcock — 2016-10-22
• Title like "The Santa Clause" or "Knight and Day" — 2016-08-22
• Many a Weird Al Yankovic title — 2016-04-22
• "Let us spray," e.g. — 2015-09-27
• Many a "?" clue in a crossword — 2014-10-07
• "Ugh, German sausage is the wurst," e.g. — 2014-09-23
• Many a New York Post headline — 2014-07-25
• Feature of many a Ludacris lyric — 2014-06-01
• Feature of many a Duchamp work — 2014-03-21
• "Poultry in motion," e.g. — 2013-06-13
• Wordplay from Groucho — 2013-02-27
• So-called "lowest form of humor" — 2012-07-30
• The title of this puzzle, e.g. — 2012-05-13
• One of about 3,000 in Shakespeare's plays — 2010-09-17
• Groan trigger — 2010-09-09
• "The lowest form of humor," per Samuel Johnson — 2010-08-15
• Bit of wordplay — 2009-10-27
• It may not have been intended — 2009-07-10
• Bit of wordplay — 2009-07-01
• 86-Across, e.g. — 2008-12-14
• What 61-Across contains — 2006-11-28
• It may involve a homophone — 2006-02-04
• "Queen of denial" for Queen of the Nile — 2006-01-02
• "The Santa Clause," for one — 2005-07-03
• "Queen of denial," e.g. — 2004-03-28
• Cause of a smile, maybe — 2003-03-02
• Bit of wit — 2003-01-16
• Many an "Airplane!" gag — 2002-10-17
• 20-, 39- or 53-Across, say — 2002-04-24
• Many a crossword clue — 2002-03-12
• Bit of Cerf humor — 2001-12-19
• "Let us spray," e.g. — 2001-06-02
• Smile producer — 2000-06-22
• Amuse with words — 2000-05-14