Historical clue formulations

• Merely whispered — 2026-07-10
• Lenient — 2026-06-17
• It's not hard! — 2026-01-28
• Shakespearean "Hush!" — 2025-11-21
• Like a baby's bottom — 2025-05-19
• Too easy (on) — 2024-11-27
• Like cashmere — 2024-09-22
• Tender — 2024-09-12
• Like forgiving lighting in photography — 2023-04-12
• Lacking emotional toughness — 2022-11-06
• Not alcoholic — 2022-06-24
• What "piano" can mean — 2021-10-03
• Pillowy — 2019-03-18
• Like Brie — 2018-08-29
• Velvety — 2017-06-07
• Cushiony — 2017-01-16
• Like a cashmere sweater — 2016-06-14
• Like blackjack hands with an ace counted as 11 — 2016-04-01
• Like decalcified water — 2014-05-14
• Piano, on a music score — 2014-02-11
• Tenderhearted — 2013-04-30
• Downy — 2011-03-15
• Low on the Mohs scale — 2008-10-29
• Comfortable — 2007-11-02
• Downy — 2007-06-11
• Wishy-washy — 2004-09-15
• Partly melted — 2003-11-09
• Quick to yield — 2003-02-23
• Easily molded — 2002-07-30
• Downy — 2001-07-08
• Feathery — 2001-04-05
• Lenient — 2001-01-13
• Hardly hard — 2000-11-27
• Delicate — 2000-11-26
• Yielding — 2000-08-13
• Not strict — 1999-02-16
• Like 22-Down pillows — 1998-09-11
• "Piano," literally — 1998-04-21
• Like some political support — 1996-10-04
• "Quiet!," to Shakespeare — 1996-09-13
• Like some ice cream — 1996-08-04
• Flaccid — 1995-10-24
• Squeezable — 1995-01-30
• Yielding readily to pressure — 1994-12-06
• Cushy — 1993-12-20