Historical clue formulations

• Gets out of the way, as hair — 2025-05-03
• Evens, as the score — 2024-04-03
• Makes too busy to do other things — 2020-06-03
• Keeps busy — 2015-08-08
• Jams — 2007-10-21
• Binds — 2005-07-27
• Hitches — 1998-03-01