Historical clue formulations

• Small grouse — 2023-08-25
• Make a snarky remark — 2022-10-29
• Take potshots — 2022-05-22
• Wading bird with a long, slender bill — 2021-01-20
• Make catty remarks from the side — 2020-10-19
• Dig — 2017-09-16
• Attack from a blind, say — 2016-02-10
• Wetlands wader — 2015-09-04
• Take a potshot — 2015-06-15
• Long-billed wading bird — 2014-10-12
• Bid at the last second, as on eBay — 2013-08-13
• Marsh bird — 2012-07-08
• Take potshots (at) — 2010-05-25
• Cousin of a woodcock — 2008-07-25
• Marsh bird — 2008-07-09
• Take potshots — 2007-11-21
• Criticize sneakily — 2007-09-27
• Relative of the sandpiper — 2007-09-03
• Long-billed wading bird — 2007-07-26
• Long-billed game bird — 2007-04-03
• Not attack head-on — 2006-09-24
• Shoot using a scope, say — 2006-08-07
• Long-billed marsh bird — 2005-09-05
• Take a shot (at) — 2004-08-08
• Take potshots — 2004-06-12
• Unexpected shot — 2003-09-27
• Straight-billed game bird — 2002-10-13
• Straight-billed game bird — 2002-02-22
• Take potshots (at) — 2001-07-31
• Make cutting remarks — 1999-11-22
• Curlew's cousin — 1999-06-27
• Sandpiper's cousin — 1999-06-23
• Take potshots (at) — 1999-01-14
• Marsh bird — 1998-05-29
• Petty criticism — 1996-12-13
• Malign, with "at" — 1996-08-10
• Criticize snidely, with "at" — 1995-11-27
• Long-billed bird — 1995-08-22
• Criticize, with "at" — 1995-05-15
• Take a potshot — 1994-02-28