Historical clue formulations

• Used to be — 2026-05-04
• Served as — 2026-03-27
• Used to be — 2026-03-23
• Happened — 2026-02-27
• Served as — 2025-11-28
• *Street urchins — 2025-06-05
• Once existed — 2025-05-05
• "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ a bear …" — 2025-04-14
• "Time ___ …" — 2025-03-26
• Is no longer — 2024-08-06
• What might come between "that" and "that" — 2024-06-21
• Historian's verb — 2024-04-25
• "As I ___ saying ..." — 2024-03-18
• "And She ___" (Talking Heads hit) — 2024-03-15
• Played the role of — 2024-03-13
• "Time ___ …" — 2024-02-22
• "As It ___" (Harry Styles hit) — 2023-10-29
• Used to be — 2023-08-02
• Is no more — 2023-04-27
• Is, before — 2023-04-17
• Used to be — 2023-04-04
• Third word in many limericks — 2023-02-21
• "A good time ___ had by all" — 2023-01-30
• "Hmm, where ___ I?" — 2022-11-15
• Word between "what" and "that" — 2022-09-25
• Were, for one? — 2022-08-14
• "Time ___ …" — 2022-08-07
• Second word of many a limerick — 2022-07-10
• The Beatles' "Till There ___ You" — 2022-02-28
• "Time ___ ..." — 2022-02-20
• Is, in hindsight — 2021-11-10
• Functioned as — 2021-08-26
• Third word in many limericks — 2021-06-01
• "How ___ it?" — 2021-05-27
• Word in obituaries — 2021-03-21
• See 24-Across — 2020-12-15
• Used to be — 2020-12-06
• "That ___ a close one!" — 2020-10-26
• "What had happened ___ ..." — 2020-09-30
• Third word of many a limerick — 2020-09-17
• Is, in retrospect — 2020-05-20
• Used to be — 2020-03-05
• Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" — 2019-09-28
• "How ___ it?" — 2019-08-02
• "Able ___ I ere I saw Elba" — 2019-07-15
• "Till There ___ You," song from "The Music Man" — 2019-06-29
• Acted as — 2019-05-05
• "Now where ___ I?" — 2018-10-23
• "Time ___ ..." — 2018-09-23
• "Time ___ ..." — 2018-07-20