Historical clue formulations

• They're often covered with dirt — 2026-07-19
• Germs — 2025-11-21
• Collection in an herbarium, say — 2025-03-22
• A strawberry has about 200 of these — 2025-03-03
• Germs — 2025-02-16
• Detritus at the bottom of a bag of bagels — 2024-10-20
• A pomegranate can contain a few hundred of these — 2022-10-02
• Parts of some brackets — 2022-04-03
• Watermelon throwaways — 2020-07-06
• What strawberries have on the outside that most fruits have on the inside — 2019-03-18
• Core group? — 2018-09-21
• Places in brackets — 2018-03-24
• Gardener's bagful — 2017-12-13
• Sometimes they're the pits — 2017-11-23
• Ones on the outsides of brackets — 2017-11-12
• They're favorites — 2017-05-19
• Ones who might be upset — 2015-10-10
• Players "planted" in a bracket — 2015-07-15
• Progenitors — 2015-04-12
• Beginnings — 2015-03-13
• Tournament favorites — 2014-07-09
• They're the pits — 2013-07-02
• Bird feeder fill — 2013-06-04
• Core units? — 2012-10-06
• Food for birds — 2010-07-20
• Open stars? — 2009-07-12
• Beginnings — 2008-09-28
• They may be sown — 2008-05-13
• Does some spring farmwork — 2008-04-21
• Tournament favorites — 2008-02-26
• They're the pits — 2007-06-10
• Origins — 2006-11-08
• Beginnings — 2006-03-04
• Burpee product — 2006-02-05
• Farmer's spring purchase — 2005-07-05
• Things put in rows — 2005-06-16
• See 37-Down — 2005-05-07
• Garden bagful — 2004-06-09
• Tournament favorites — 2004-05-11
• Burpee's packetful — 2004-03-17
• Trail mix tidbits — 2003-11-09
• Plant starters — 2003-09-29
• Core group? — 2002-11-07
• Likely winners — 2001-09-08
• Watermelon throwaways — 2000-07-03
• Origins — 1999-11-28
• Spring purchase — 1999-10-03
• Favorites, at times — 1999-08-05
• Starting points — 1999-02-26
• Beginnings — 1998-07-18