Historical clue formulations

• Toy on a string — 2026-05-25
• It has its ups and downs — 2026-04-26
• Toy that can go "around the world" — 2026-01-12
• Toy that might "walk the dog" — 2026-01-06
• Toy on a string that's not a kite — 2025-12-08
• You might use it to walk the dog — 2024-11-15
• Fluctuate wildly — 2024-03-12
• Waver wildly — 2023-05-12
• Something to perform tricks with — 2023-05-10
• It's used to walk the dog — 2023-04-12
• Ma who once left a $2.5 million cello in the trunk of a taxi — 2023-01-10
• You might perform the Creeper, the Sleeper or Rock the Baby with this — 2022-12-23
• Opposite of flatline — 2022-10-21
• Toy on a string — 2019-09-09
• Quickly change one's mind back and forth — 2019-07-09
• Toy on a string — 2019-02-05
• Dimwit — 2018-08-20
• Show extreme instability — 2018-07-08
• Kook — 2017-11-26
• Fluctuate wildly — 2016-05-19
• Vacillate — 2015-09-05
• What some dieters do — 2015-01-20
• Ditz — 2014-09-21
• Performer of tricks? — 2014-06-15
• Numbskull — 2013-12-15
• Idiot — 2013-10-30
• Dummy — 2013-05-07
• It has its ups and downs — 2013-01-23
• Toy that does tricks — 2012-12-03
• Toy you can do tricks with — 2012-11-05
• One being put to sleep? — 2012-06-21
• Swing wildly — 2012-04-20
• Fad item of 1962 — 2012-02-14
• Jerk — 2011-01-06
• Fluctuate — 2010-02-11
• Unstable type — 2009-09-18
• Jerk — 2007-11-04
• Toy that might go "around the world" — 2007-10-01
• Toy on a string — 2007-06-18
• Jerk — 2006-09-10
• Dingbat — 2006-02-22
• It can go around the world — 2006-01-25
• It's used to walk the dog — 2005-08-17
• Goofball — 2005-02-09
• Something to swing on a string — 2005-01-11
• Stringed toy — 2004-09-27
• Ma with a bow — 2004-05-18
• Toy that does tricks — 2004-04-12
• Toy that "sleeps" — 2003-09-09
• Toy that does tricks — 2003-09-01