Historical clue formulations

• With 28-Down, set hanging by a door — 2026-06-20
• Treat mercifully — 2026-04-24
• Prince Harry, per his memoir's title — 2026-02-05
• Extra — 2025-10-05
• Slash on a scoresheet — 2025-07-27
• Tire on the back of a jeep — 2025-07-01
• Alley pickup — 2024-08-03
• What "/" can mean — 2024-05-31
• *Place to be pampered — 2023-12-21
• What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet — 2023-01-09
• Ten pins in two bowls — 2022-08-16
• / — 2021-03-27
• Minimalist — 2020-07-23
• Certain second attempt success — 2020-05-15
• Next-best bowling frame to a strike — 2020-04-27
• Not quite a strike — 2019-04-10
• Fifth wheel — 2017-09-24
• Happy event after a split? — 2017-09-03
• Show leniency toward — 2017-08-22
• Get 10 from two? — 2017-01-06
• "___ me!" — 2016-08-14
• Knockdown of all the pins in two bowls — 2015-09-21
• Let off — 2015-08-21
• Fifth tire — 2012-12-03
• /, to a bowler — 2011-10-11
• Success on a second attempt, of a sort — 2011-04-07
• Fifth tire — 2010-02-17
• It can be worth up to 20 points — 2010-01-20
• Diagonal line, on a bowling score sheet — 2010-01-18
• Show clemency — 2009-08-15
• Alley pickup — 2007-07-11
• Score with two balls — 2007-05-15
• Deal gently with — 2007-02-08
• Reserve — 2006-08-19
• Slash on a scorepad — 2006-03-26
• Like a fifth wheel — 2006-01-19
• Bowler's pickup — 2005-12-20
• Extra, as a bedroom — 2005-12-13
• Pass over — 2005-05-27
• Backup — 2004-10-23
• Flat replacement — 2004-07-13
• Trunk item — 2004-05-11
• Have mercy on — 2003-09-21
• Extra — 2003-07-21
• It may follow a split — 2002-04-16
• Extra — 2002-02-25
• Lean — 2001-06-10
• Lacking froufrou — 1999-08-07
• Ten pins on two tries — 1999-06-14
• The fifth tire — 1999-03-29