Historical clue formulations

• Thought and thought and thought (about) — 2022-05-07
• Fretted — 2022-03-05
• Was in a state of suppressed agitation — 2021-12-14
• Knight's ride — 2016-10-27
• Fretted — 2014-02-06
• Blasted — 2013-07-28
• Likkered up — 2012-06-13
• Stinko — 2007-11-04
• Lit — 2005-07-29
• More than tipsy — 2005-05-16
• Three sheets to the wind — 2003-02-13
• Like some prunes — 2001-02-03
• Drunk as a skunk — 2000-06-26
• Pie-eyed — 1999-12-29
• Liquored up — 1997-04-24
• Pie-eyed — 1995-12-02
• Prepared, as tomatoes — 1995-07-25
• Potted — 1994-03-29