Historical clue formulations

• Cloth covered in dust, say — 2026-08-18
• Wiping cloth — 2026-04-26
• Final use for an old T-shirt — 2026-02-23
• Low-quality paper? — 2025-09-07
• Staple at a car wash — 2025-08-23
• Cloth at a car wash — 2025-06-09
• Aid in washing a car — 2025-01-27
• Old T-shirt, maybe — 2024-09-29
• Tune often in 2/4 time — 2024-03-01
• Unreliable news source — 2024-02-23
• Cleaning cloth — 2023-10-03
• Remover of dirt … or spreader of dirt — 2023-09-16
• Many a Scott Joplin tune — 2023-09-11
• Wick for a Molotov cocktail — 2023-06-03
• Makeshift towel — 2023-05-14
• Tease, with "on" — 2022-05-28
• Untrustworthy paper — 2022-05-22
• Old cloth — 2022-03-14
• Cleaning cloth — 2022-03-08
• Scott Joplin tune — 2022-01-25
• Aid at a carwash — 2022-01-20
• Low-quality paper — 2021-10-23
• Criticize, with "on" — 2021-09-17
• Unreliable source of news — 2021-07-06
• "The Entertainer," e.g. — 2021-06-10
• Cloth for cleaning — 2021-06-07
• Criticize constantly, with "on" — 2021-02-28
• Disreputable newspaper — 2021-01-12
• Jaunty piano tune — 2021-01-05
• Piano tune — 2020-12-27
• Tease constantly, with "on" — 2020-11-01
• Rip (on) — 2020-10-25
• Sponge alternative — 2020-08-02
• Newspaper, disparagingly — 2020-06-30
• Sensationalist newspaper — 2020-05-10
• Tune with syncopated rhythm — 2020-04-17
• It may collect dust — 2020-04-16
• Newspaper held in low esteem — 2020-04-15
• Publisher of yellow journalism — 2019-12-21
• Lousy newspaper — 2019-05-12
• "The Entertainer," for one — 2019-02-09
• Dis, with "on" — 2018-06-13
• Old washcloth — 2018-04-09
• Car wash aid — 2018-03-20
• Lively tune — 2018-01-28
• Low-quality paper — 2017-11-01
• Tease relentlessly — 2017-10-18
• Sleazy newspaper — 2017-09-20
• What an old shirt may be used as — 2017-09-04
• Disreputable periodical — 2016-12-30