Historical clue formulations

• Fairly — 2024-10-25
• To some extent — 2015-08-05
• Newsman Dan — 2009-10-20
• Preferably — 2009-03-01
• Cronkite successor — 2006-04-03
• Preferably — 2006-02-11
• Kind of — 2005-12-06
• Sort of — 2004-02-06
• Somewhat — 1999-07-19
• Brit's accented reply — 1998-03-22
• Chung's partner — 1994-02-09