Historical clue formulations

• Show stoppers, sometimes — 2025-12-05
• Cloudbursts — 2025-03-05
• Comes down — 2024-08-16
• "Why don't sheep shrink when it ___?": George Carlin — 2024-08-09
• Comes down in buckets, say — 2024-07-01
• Comes down — 2023-06-28
• Game stoppers — 2023-03-12
• Pours down — 2022-09-05
• Showers — 2020-05-24
• Monsoon events — 2017-11-06
• Comes down — 2017-09-07
• They're measured by pluviometers — 2017-02-05
• Boons for farmers — 2012-09-09
• Claude of "Casablanca" — 2011-11-08
• Pores — 2011-04-21
• Farmers' needs — 2009-10-24
• They may pound the pavement — 2008-12-19
• Monsoon occurrences — 2008-02-18
• They make lawns green — 2007-08-01
• Comes down — 2006-11-04
• Waters naturally — 2005-08-24
• What the monsoon season brings — 2002-07-08
• Spring events — 2000-07-26
• Downpours — 1999-05-16
• Torrents — 1999-02-14
• Gullywashers — 1999-01-02
• Ruins a picnic or a Little League game, say — 1998-12-28
• Downpours — 1997-12-10
• Ombrometers measure them — 1997-06-01
• Parade stoppers — 1995-09-01
• Gullywashers — 1995-04-02
• Soakers — 1994-05-14
• Pours — 1994-05-11
• Precipitates — 1994-04-17