Historical clue formulations

• Past or present — 2026-07-10
• Needing kneading, perhaps — 2026-06-07
• Nervous — 2026-04-01
• Nerve-racking — 2025-09-10
• Past, present or future — 2025-01-01
• Feature of English, but not Chinese — 2024-12-28
• Like the atmosphere after an awkward joke — 2024-07-28
• Present, for one — 2024-07-25
• Perfect, e.g. — 2024-04-26
• Past, present or future — 2024-04-16
• Like stiff muscles — 2024-04-02
• The difference between who I was and who I am? — 2024-03-22
• Anxious — 2023-03-22
• Present, past or future perfect — 2023-01-02
• Present, for one — 2022-11-12
• All wound up — 2022-11-03
• Wound up — 2022-07-01
• It may be perfect for writing — 2022-04-01
• Present, e.g. — 2021-10-17
• All wound up — 2021-09-06
• Will can change it — 2021-07-10
• It may be perfect or simple, but not both — 2021-06-13
• Wedgy — 2020-07-23
• It may be imperfect — 2020-05-09
• Wound up — 2019-09-27
• Uptight — 2019-06-03
• Tighten (up) — 2019-03-21
• High-strung — 2017-12-28
• Nerve-racking — 2017-09-10
• Like sports crowds during a close game — 2017-08-15
• Nail-biting — 2017-07-01
• Past or present — 2016-12-19
• Present, e.g. — 2016-05-04
• Future perfect, for one — 2015-06-15
• In need of a back rub, say — 2015-06-02
• Jittery — 2014-10-23
• All wound up — 2014-08-25
• Perfect, e.g. — 2014-07-27
• Stressed — 2014-01-19
• Time indicator, of sorts — 2014-01-03
• What a verb ending may indicate — 2013-10-02
• Needing a massage, maybe — 2013-06-12
• Uptight — 2010-02-23
• Nail-biting — 2010-02-02
• Past, present or future — 2009-12-07
• Needing a massage, say — 2009-10-18
• Cliff-hanging — 2009-05-31
• In need of a rubdown — 2009-05-19
• Ex-lax? — 2009-04-02
• In need of a massage, maybe — 2009-02-02