Historical clue formulations

• Part of a bedtime routine — 2026-01-18
• Floor — 2025-04-06
• Part of a child's bedtime routine, perhaps — 2024-08-03
• Level — 2024-03-26
• Child's bedtime request — 2023-12-04
• Alibi, say — 2022-07-21
• Part of a child's bedtime ritual — 2022-04-13
• Yarn — 2022-03-27
• Floor — 2020-10-04
• Tale — 2020-08-12
• Child's request — 2018-04-21
• Alibi — 2017-11-29
• Campfire entertainment — 2016-10-27
• See 47-Across — 2016-06-07
• Lie — 2014-05-18
• Floor — 2014-04-16
• O. Henry work — 2013-08-06
• "Likely ___!" — 2012-04-03
• Tale — 2010-07-05
• Level ... or a three-word hint to 20-, 38- and 60-Across — 2008-07-10
• Tale — 2008-06-30
• Alibi — 2008-06-01
• Lie — 2008-02-17
• - — 2007-07-26
• Alibi — 2006-01-23
• Bedtime request — 2005-02-02
• News feature — 2004-06-03
• End of a flight? — 2004-04-10
• Narrative — 2004-02-23
• Many a parent/child bedtime ritual — 2003-10-13
• See 27-Across — 2002-10-25
• Alibi — 2001-02-22
• Child's bedtime treat — 2000-09-24
• News feature — 2000-04-29
• "Hansel and Gretel," for one — 1997-12-02
• Tale — 1996-12-16
• Yarn — 1996-10-03
• Bedtime request — 1995-09-22
• Yarn — 1995-09-17
• Excuse — 1994-07-30