Historical clue formulations

• Laces (into) — 2026-09-15
• Tears — 2026-06-03
• Criticizes viciously — 2025-08-22
• Aesthetic features of some jeans — 2025-07-04
• Copies, as from a disc — 2025-06-15
• Harshly criticizes — 2024-09-20
• Fabric tears — 2024-04-22
• Sewing targets — 2023-10-03
• Some jeans features — 2021-07-14
• Copies, as from a CD — 2021-04-17
• Tears — 2020-06-02
• Tears — 2020-01-22
• Tears — 2019-05-01
• Tears — 2018-06-19
• Dangerous currents — 2018-04-07
• Common sights at pants knees — 2018-01-03
• Castigates — 2015-12-24
• Home run swings — 2015-07-01
• Makes cool, in a way, as jeans — 2014-11-10
• Copies from CD to PC — 2012-12-09
• Rents — 2011-04-10
• Features of some jeans — 2010-11-07
• Slams — 2010-04-18
• Tatters — 2009-11-21
• Criticizes in no uncertain terms — 2008-11-30
• Criticizes harshly — 2008-03-12
• Steals, with "off" — 2007-07-23
• Tears — 2006-04-16
• Lights (into) — 2005-11-20
• They may be put in stitches — 2004-05-08
• Slangy insults — 2003-10-31
• Saws with the grain — 2003-10-15
• Places for patches — 2003-04-22
• Castigates — 2003-01-11
• Manhandles — 2002-02-14
• Home run swings — 2001-08-25
• Saws with the grain — 2001-07-24
• Laces (into) — 1999-10-19
• Tears — 1997-10-15
• Hightails it — 1996-03-31
• Criticizes hard — 1995-11-29
• Attacks, with "into" — 1995-03-26
• Splits — 1994-05-18
• Vituperates, with "into" — 1994-01-23
• Torn and tide, e.g. — 1993-12-31