Historical clue formulations

• Like some wide-open spaces — 2026-04-03
• Like 97% of the United States, per the Census Bureau — 2026-03-27
• In the countryside — 2026-03-02
• Countrified — 2025-08-12
• Like the boonies — 2025-07-21
• In the country — 2025-04-08
• Like the homes of roughly one in six Americans — 2024-03-08
• Like 86% of New York State, contrary to stereotype — 2022-11-28
• In the countryside — 2022-07-11
• Opposite of urban — 2022-06-20
• Like the boondocks — 2022-05-25
• Like farm country — 2022-03-08
• In the countryside — 2022-01-10
• Like many scenes of the artist Jean-François Millet — 2021-08-28
• Like about 97% of U.S. land — 2021-01-10
• Like much of Iowa — 2020-01-19
• Like much of the Dakotas — 2020-01-14
• Like scenes in Grant Wood paintings — 2019-10-10
• Outside the city — 2018-11-11
• Not built up — 2018-07-20
• In the boonies — 2018-04-05
• Neither urban nor suburban — 2017-09-04
• Urban's opposite — 2017-08-28
• Like Mayberry — 2016-10-26
• Like the settings of typical Grant Wood paintings — 2016-08-14
• Nonurban — 2016-04-26
• Lacking Verizon coverage, maybe — 2015-04-01
• Like most of Wyoming — 2014-07-09
• Out of town? — 2014-02-10
• Opposite of urban — 2013-08-19
• Not built up — 2013-04-07
• Urban's opposite — 2012-09-10
• Backwoods — 2011-05-29
• Like Mayberry — 2009-11-10
• Like a certain route — 2008-07-16
• Countryish — 2007-10-30
• From the country — 2007-05-14
• Not built up — 2007-01-07
• On the range, say — 2006-05-28
• Like "Green Acres" — 2005-10-26
• The "R" of R.F.D. — 2003-11-03
• Countrified — 2003-08-05
• Like Mayberry — 2002-05-28
• Bucolic — 2001-05-17
• Like Mayberry — 2001-05-09
• Like the boondocks — 2000-10-03
• The "R" in R.F.D. — 2000-05-08
• Not built-up — 2000-05-07
• Bucolic — 2000-04-12
• Like 63-Across, usually — 2000-02-12