Historical clue formulations

• Gets under control — 2025-04-30
• Tones down — 2025-02-04
• Smooths, as unruly hair — 2024-09-11
• Subdues, as wild hair — 2023-06-21
• Reins in — 2021-12-25
• Controls — 2021-08-20
• Fixes, as unruly hair — 2021-06-04
• Does some bronco-busting, e.g. — 2020-05-03
• Breaks, in a way — 2019-12-06
• Takes the wildness out of — 2017-08-08
• Domesticates — 2016-05-09
• Breaks, as a stallion — 2015-09-02
• Breaks — 2014-09-13
• Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle — 2014-09-01
• Busts, as broncos — 2014-06-10
• Breaks — 2013-10-18
• Calms — 2010-03-21
• Harnesses — 2008-12-18
• Breaks, in a way — 2007-03-29
• Breaks at the ranch — 2003-04-25
• Breaks — 2002-06-14
• Breaks, in a way — 1996-09-15
• Breaks — 1996-03-07
• Subdues — 1995-09-12
• Breaks, in a way — 1994-12-04