Historical clue formulations

• "___ the night before Christmas …" — 2026-06-08
• Old-fashioned contraction — 2025-08-03
• First word of Carroll's "Jabberwocky" — 2025-06-19
• Christmas poem opener — 2024-06-09
• "___ the night before Christmas …" — 2023-11-19
• "___ the night before Christmas …" — 2023-07-31
• What comes before the night before Christmas? — 2022-12-04
• Opening on Christmas Eve? — 2022-03-16
• Contraction starting a Christmas poem — 2021-11-23
• "___ the night before Christmas ..." — 2021-11-16
• "___ the night before Christmas ..." — 2021-10-18
• First word of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" — 2021-06-13
• "___ brillig ..." — 2020-11-13
• "___ a rough night": Macbeth — 2020-10-07
• First word of "Jabberwocky" — 2019-09-08
• First word of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" — 2019-09-03
• Contraction that starts "Jabberwocky" — 2019-03-20
• Start of a classic Christmas poem — 2019-02-10
• "Love, when we met, ___ like two planets meeting": Ella Wheeler Wilcox — 2019-02-03
• "___ autumn, and a clear and placid day": Wordsworth — 2018-03-04
• Holiday poem starter — 2018-01-21
• First word of "Jabberwocky" — 2017-12-09
• "___ brillig ..." — 2017-12-01
• "___ the night before Christmas ..." — 2017-01-16
• "___ not to be" — 2015-07-04
• Xmas poem opener — 2015-03-24
• "___ the night before Christmas ..." — 2014-05-12
• "___ like a Maelstrom, with a notch" (Emily Dickinson poem) — 2012-07-22
• "Jabberwocky" starter — 2012-06-10
• Start of a Clement Moore classic — 2012-02-08
• Start of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" — 2010-11-21
• "___ Love - not me": Dickinson — 2010-10-23
• "___ the night before ..." — 2010-04-19
• Christmas verse starter — 2009-03-26
• "___ the night before Christmas ..." — 2008-12-01
• First word of "Jabberwocky" — 2008-01-27
• "___ wondrous pitiful": "Othello" — 2007-12-29
• "Jabberwocky" start — 2007-11-28
• "Jabberwocky" opener — 2007-01-13
• Poetic contraction — 2006-09-03
• It's in the past — 2005-10-16
• "Jabberwocky" start — 2005-08-09
• "Jabberwocky" starter — 2005-03-09
• Start of a Christmas classic — 2004-12-19
• Moore verse opener — 2004-07-16
• "___ the night before Christmas ..." — 2004-03-22
• Christmas poem opener — 2003-11-20
• "Jabberwocky" start — 2003-06-06
• "... ___ but the wind": Byron — 2003-02-01
• "Jabberwocky" starter — 2003-01-03