Historical clue formulations

• Circus performer — 2025-04-26
• More subdued — 2024-04-28
• Onetime Ringling Brothers employee — 2023-06-11
• Less wild — 2023-06-01
• Not as fierce — 2023-05-04
• Not as adventurous — 2022-12-10
• Lion ___ — 2021-08-22
• Not as unruly — 2021-02-28
• Horse whisperer, e.g. — 2021-02-08
• Circus performer — 2020-11-24
• Less risqué — 2018-03-27
• Circus whip-cracker — 2018-02-26
• Less feral — 2017-09-13
• Not as exciting — 2015-05-31
• Horse whisperer, e.g. — 2014-08-01
• Circus employee — 2012-09-30
• Circus employee with a whip — 2012-08-13
• Circus chairperson? — 2011-01-06
• Whip-cracker — 2010-11-30
• Chair person? — 2010-06-04
• One good at breaking — 2005-02-19
• Less savage — 2004-11-11
• Worker with circus lions — 2004-05-31
• Circus employee — 2003-09-17
• Circus employee — 2003-02-19
• Big top figure — 2002-11-21
• Circus chairperson? — 2001-03-13
• Circus star with a whip — 2000-03-06
• Circus employee — 2000-02-20
• Petruchio, to Kate — 1999-10-21
• Animal handler — 1999-10-10
• Circus performer — 1999-09-26
• Breaker of a sort — 1999-07-30
• One holding a chair, perhaps — 1999-03-05
• Bronco buster — 1997-12-29
• Less exciting — 1997-05-03
• Circus performer — 1996-09-16
• Worker with lions — 1996-01-29
• Circus employee — 1995-07-25
• Not as wild — 1995-07-17
• Circus employee — 1995-06-19
• Less racy — 1994-08-26
• Chair person? — 1994-01-07