Historical clue formulations

• Word with confidence or checkout — 2026-07-05
• "There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's ___.": Poor Richard's Almanack — 2026-03-24
• "To thine own ___ be true" — 2025-12-30
• First person? — 2025-09-18
• Beginning of consciousness? — 2025-08-26
• Condé Nast women's magazine — 2025-04-02
• ___-referential (like the clue for 52-Across) — 2024-11-26
• Ego — 2024-09-17
• Mirror image? — 2024-08-25
• Word with care or aware — 2024-05-01
• Lead-in to service or sacrifice — 2023-12-10
• Introspective subject — 2023-11-15
• Jungian topic — 2023-08-13
• Egotist's concern — 2023-05-16
• ___-service — 2022-10-30
• Identity — 2022-09-02
• Lead-in to service or sacrifice — 2021-07-23
• Lead-in to love or care — 2021-04-28
• ___-evaluation — 2020-12-07
• Word before taught or effacing — 2020-08-17
• Who "I" refers to — 2019-09-16
• Introvert's focus — 2018-12-23
• Subject most familiar to a portrait painter — 2018-11-19
• What the "s" stands for in "scuba" — 2018-07-15
• What "I" or "me" refers to — 2018-04-30
• Individual — 2017-10-18
• ___-portrait — 2015-10-12
• Narcissist's focus — 2015-03-05
• ___-worth — 2015-02-19
• Identity — 2014-06-01
• "___-starter" (résumé cliché) — 2013-07-31
• Number one, to some — 2013-02-23
• Lead-in to preservation — 2012-03-27
• Common portrait subject — 2012-02-25
• Mirror image — 2011-09-25
• Mirror image? — 2011-06-05
• Condé Nast title — 2010-09-16
• Autobiographer's subject — 2010-06-21
• Narcissist's love — 2010-05-06
• Freudian concern — 2010-02-15
• "To thine own ___ be true" — 2009-03-17
• Starter starter? — 2008-03-16
• You, to you, or me, to me — 2008-01-24
• "Note to ___ ..." — 2007-09-09
• ___-help — 2007-07-16
• "Note to ___ ..." — 2007-06-17
• Kind of help — 2007-04-15
• Popular magazine — 2006-08-19
• Narcissist's love — 2006-07-25
• "Note to ___ …" — 2006-02-23