Historical clue formulations

• Drink with junmai and nigori variants — 2026-05-13
• Drink from a small cup — 2026-04-25
• Drink that's often served hot in the winter — 2026-04-15
• Purpose — 2025-09-10
• Drink served hot or cold — 2025-08-22
• Benefit — 2025-05-10
• Shot dropped into a glass of beer, in a popular cocktail — 2024-11-06
• Fermented rice wine — 2024-04-16
• Japanese rice wine — 2024-01-31
• Japanese rice wine — 2023-09-12
• Benefit — 2023-06-24
• Sushi bar drink — 2023-03-05
• Sushi bar drink — 2022-04-18
• "For Pete's ___!" — 2022-03-09
• Drink sometimes served in a masu cup — 2021-12-16
• Wine often served with 15-Across — 2021-09-21
• Drink served hot or cold — 2021-03-11
• Japanese beverage often served hot — 2020-06-22
• Fermented rice wine — 2020-06-15
• Drink in a little cup — 2020-04-19
• ___ bomb (cocktail) — 2019-05-31
• Sushi bar drink — 2018-07-17
• Staple of Shinto rituals — 2017-08-06
• National beverage of 10-Across — 2017-08-05
• Sashimi go-with — 2017-06-20
• "For heaven's ___!" — 2017-05-31
• Rice wine — 2017-03-28
• Ritual drink in Shintoism — 2017-03-24
• Drink sometimes served hot — 2017-01-08
• Sushi go-with — 2016-11-27
• Literally, "liquor," in Japanese — 2016-11-14
• Japanese rice wine — 2014-10-13
• Sushi bar quaff — 2014-05-14
• Teriyaki go-with — 2014-05-03
• Clear libation popular in Japan — 2014-03-12
• Benefit — 2013-10-24
• Drink served in a masu — 2013-08-09
• Alcohol typically drunk warm — 2013-03-05
• Drink at a sushi bar — 2012-12-10
• Benefit — 2012-10-28
• Benefit — 2012-06-26
• Alcoholic beverage often served warm — 2011-02-16
• Drink at a sushi bar — 2010-02-01
• Drink with sushi — 2009-05-26
• Hot Japanese drink — 2008-01-14
• Purpose — 2007-12-07
• Drink with tempura — 2007-09-05
• Japanese drink — 2007-03-12
• Benefit — 2006-12-28
• Drink with sushi — 2006-11-27