Historical clue formulations

• Smart — 2025-07-17
• *Removing lumps from, in a way — 2025-06-05
• Defend the hive, in a way — 2023-07-19
• Attack, as a bee might — 2023-01-02
• Injury from a jellyfish — 2021-05-11
• Trap, of a sort — 2021-01-31
• What aftershave can do — 2019-11-05
• Undercover operation — 2017-03-12
• "O death, where is thy ___?": I Corinthians — 2017-01-24
• Deceptive police op — 2016-07-10
• Police setup — 2016-06-28
• What angry bees do — 2016-03-28
• Cops' crook-catching hoax — 2016-02-09
• Unpleasant surprise from a worker — 2015-10-10
• Police setup — 2013-04-21
• Police trap — 2011-06-20
• Possible cause of a swelling — 2008-01-09
• Police con — 2008-01-01
• Bee injury — 2005-12-26
• Con game — 2005-04-27
• Hurt bad — 2004-12-07
• A criminal may be caught in one — 2004-01-09
• Con game — 2003-06-29
• Overcharge, slangily — 2003-05-03
• Kind of operation — 2003-02-07
• Kind of operation — 2002-10-31
• Apiarist's woe — 2000-10-04
• Smart — 2000-04-12
• It might be involved in a police roundup — 2000-02-10
• Undercover operation — 1999-01-12
• Smart — 1998-12-12
• Overcharge — 1998-10-14
• Confidence game — 1998-07-09
• Prick — 1998-07-04
• Entrapment — 1998-05-20
• Iodine reaction — 1997-07-02
• Police operation — 1997-05-12
• Scorpion attack — 1996-11-10
• "Every Breath You Take" singer — 1996-10-22
• Confidence scheme — 1995-04-02
• Smart — 1994-11-04
• Abscam, for one — 1994-08-21
• Crime fighters' tactic — 1993-12-05