| 2026-01-01 | Pitted fruit |
| 2025-05-08 | Main ingredient in the Japanese liqueur umeshu |
| 2025-02-14 | Desirable and profitable, as an assignment |
| 2023-03-02 | Kind of job that's coveted |
| 2022-12-20 | Fruit used to make slivovitz |
| 2021-08-18 | Fruit in the William Carlos Williams poem "This Is Just to Say" |
| 2021-08-01 | Shade of purple |
| 2020-08-07 | Choice |
| 2020-03-25 | Professor in a library, perhaps |
| 2020-01-13 | Desirable, as a job |
| 2019-06-12 | Coveted, as a position |
| 2017-12-11 | Juicy fruit with a pit |
| 2017-05-27 | Color close to puce |
| 2017-05-23 | Coveted, as a position |
| 2016-06-16 | Purple shade |
| 2015-11-03 | Professor ___, Clue suspect |
| 2014-04-06 | Job everyone wants |
| 2013-04-25 | Desirable, as a job |
| 2011-09-17 | Choice job |
| 2008-05-31 | Extremely desirable |
| 2007-10-11 | Windfall |
| 2006-06-30 | Coveted |
| 2005-12-12 | Pudding fruit |
| 2003-11-12 | Desirable thing |
| 2003-08-05 | Coveted prize |
| 2002-03-24 | Choice assignment |
| 2002-02-18 | Prune, before drying |
| 2001-04-23 | Jack Horner's find |
| 2001-02-11 | Prized |
| 1999-08-17 | Purple color |
| 1998-10-19 | Prune, formerly |
| 1996-10-31 | Kind of tomato |
| 1996-10-20 | Horner's find |
| 1994-08-03 | Jack Horner's surprise |
| 1994-06-29 | High-paying easy job |
| 1993-12-23 | Deep purple |