Historical clue formulations

• Time's 2023 Person of the Year — 2026-04-12
• Hurried — 2026-03-28
• "You Belong With Me" singer — 2024-09-03
• Fleet-footed ("A Maypole") — 2023-04-19
• Taylor ___, some of whose hit songs are featured in the answers to the starred clues — 2022-07-05
• Bird that can spend up to 10 months in the air without landing — 2021-04-04
• Brisk — 2020-02-16
• Fleet-footed — 2019-05-19
• Fleet of foot — 2019-01-09
• Speedy — 2017-10-03
• "Gulliver's Travels" author — 2015-06-22
• Fleet — 2012-03-15
• Not too ___ — 2010-01-20
• Fleet — 2004-01-18
• Galloping — 2001-10-11
• Clever, slangily — 2000-05-23
• "A Modest Proposal" writer — 1999-01-03