Historical clue formulations

• Ship back? — 2026-07-04
• Serious in manner — 2026-04-28
• Serious — 2026-04-16
• Taxing, as a test — 2026-03-07
• Like an authoritarian — 2026-01-11
• Showing tough love, say — 2025-09-27
• Unbending — 2024-12-01
• Exacting — 2024-09-01
• Hard-nosed — 2024-05-01
• Sailor's rear — 2023-05-21
• Strict — 2022-12-28
• Rear of a ship — 2022-11-07
• Unyielding — 2022-09-03
• Rhadamanthine — 2022-08-27
• Back of a boat — 2022-08-22
• Back of a ship — 2022-03-08
• Like the tone of a talking-to — 2021-09-22
• Rudder's locale — 2021-09-21
• Back of a ship — 2021-08-23
• Unsmiling — 2021-05-16
• Rudder's place — 2020-01-05
• Forbidding — 2019-07-17
• Unsmiling — 2019-06-23
• Rear admiral's rear — 2019-01-22
• Back of a boat — 2018-08-20
• Rear admiral's rear — 2018-01-23
• Harsh — 2017-11-22
• Taking no guff — 2017-02-21
• Back — 2016-12-03
• Back — 2016-09-28
• Rear of a ship — 2016-09-19
• SiriusXM star — 2016-08-14
• Like a disciplinarian's talk — 2016-03-29
• Like a parental lecture — 2015-08-02
• Resistant to compromise — 2015-02-13
• Severe — 2014-06-15
• Rear admiral's rear — 2014-05-25
• Back of a boat — 2013-12-23
• Rear admiral's rear — 2013-06-07
• Serious — 2013-03-30
• Bow's counterpart — 2012-09-14
• Severe — 2011-09-21
• Back of a boat — 2011-03-07
• Harsh — 2010-07-18
• Howard of satellite radio — 2010-06-22
• Hard-nosed — 2009-04-12
• Rear of a galley — 2009-03-22
• Firm — 2009-03-21
• Uncompromising — 2008-10-06
• Draconian — 2008-10-02