Historical clue formulations

• Article of sports equipment that needs to be strung — 2025-09-08
• Hullabaloo — 2025-06-28
• Hullabaloo — 2025-04-08
• Clatter — 2024-08-16
• Bit of tennis or squash equipment — 2023-06-26
• Something needed to play the game depicted in this puzzle — 2017-05-10
• Clamor — 2017-02-19
• Club : golf :: ___ : tennis — 2015-03-02
• Criminal activity — 2014-06-13
• Serving need — 2001-05-12
• Bootlegging or extortion — 1996-09-30
• Bootlegging or extortion, e.g. — 1996-01-18