Historical clue formulations

• Rests — 2026-01-16
• Takes a load off — 2025-10-26
• Is on the bottom? — 2025-09-27
• Takes a load off — 2025-04-01
• Parks oneself — 2024-11-08
• Plops oneself down — 2024-09-30
• Gathers dust, so to speak — 2024-04-27
• Doesn't move — 2023-10-15
• Tends to a minor issue? — 2023-04-22
• Watches the kids — 2023-03-06
• Takes a load off — 2023-01-22
• Poses for a photo — 2021-05-03
• Doesn't go anywhere — 2021-01-08
• Plops down — 2020-12-24
• Takes a chair — 2020-08-03
• Wrests — 2020-07-23
• Goes unused — 2019-08-29
• Gathers dust — 2019-01-09
• Protests peacefully, in a way — 2017-10-13
• Rides the bench — 2017-08-23
• Takes a chair — 2017-01-23
• Goes unused — 2016-12-09
• Models, in a way — 2014-08-03
• Uses a 49-Down — 2014-07-11
• Poses — 2014-01-12
• Serves on a panel — 2013-12-11
• Takes the bench — 2013-08-26
• Makes a lap — 2013-01-20
• Opposite of rises — 2012-09-02
• Poses (for) — 2012-08-06
• Keeps the nest warm — 2012-06-10
• Is unused — 2011-06-02
• Responds to a dog command — 2011-01-31
• Plops down — 2010-03-16
• Collects splinters, so to speak — 2009-08-26
• Uses a pew — 2008-11-10
• Tends tots — 2008-08-26
• Uses a stool — 2008-03-24
• Rests — 2008-02-24
• Uses a stool — 2007-06-04
• Models — 2006-06-24
• Parks in a pew — 2006-03-24
• Goes unused — 2005-04-01
• Does a job for parents, maybe — 2004-08-01
• Looks after little ones — 2003-09-24
• Isn't put to use — 2002-04-14
• Is on the bottom? — 2001-12-21
• Meets — 2001-11-24
• Is idle — 2001-10-14
• Plops down — 2000-07-16