Historical clue formulations

• Chance level right above none — 2026-09-19
• Not very favorable, as some 84-Down — 2026-08-16
• Like some chances — 2026-04-23
• Word before chance or pickings — 2025-10-28
• Like your chances of winning the lottery — 2025-10-13
• Unlikely, as odds — 2025-02-10
• Dress shirt fit option — 2024-11-06
• Like the odds of getting dealt a royal flush — 2023-10-16
• Small, as chances — 2023-07-26
• Narrow — 2023-03-09
• Slender — 2023-02-13
• Rotten, as chances — 2022-10-01
• Not great, as chances — 2022-01-18
• See 88-Across — 2022-01-09
• Like the odds of finding a needle in a haystack — 2021-08-01
• Improbable — 2021-06-25
• Next to nothing, as a chance — 2021-06-22
• Nickname for a really thin guy — 2020-01-26
• Svelte — 2019-08-13
• Slender — 2019-01-29
• Not very likely — 2018-08-08
• Like a long shot's chances — 2017-09-12
• Like long chances — 2017-09-10
• Negligible — 2017-08-28
• Not much, but better than none — 2015-09-24
• Nickname for a lanky cowboy — 2015-02-22
• Nickname for a lanky guy — 2014-12-06
• Remote — 2014-08-15
• Remote — 2014-08-01
• Like some pickings — 2013-07-24
• Thin — 2013-06-24
• Skinny — 2013-02-10
• Hardly stocky — 2012-04-27
• Dude ranch nickname — 2010-06-06
• Fat, as a chance — 2010-04-24
• Unpromising, as a chance — 2010-04-11
• Slight, as chances — 2010-01-18
• Spare — 2009-09-20
• Gracile — 2009-01-15
• Post-diet, ideally — 2008-07-03
• Slender — 2008-02-24
• ___ to none (long odds) — 2008-01-29
• Meager — 2007-12-02
• Slender — 2007-10-01
• Diet — 2007-01-28
• Willowy — 2007-01-22
• Poor — 2006-09-01
• Slight — 2005-12-29
• Insignificant — 2005-10-16
• Meager — 2005-08-23