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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

OLD
Just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"

SET
Several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press"

4 letters

FADE
Gradually ceasing to be visible

FLAT
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

HACK
Kick on the shins

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

WORN
Affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"

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TRITE
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

STALE
Urinate, of cattle and horses

STOCK
Any animals kept for use or profit

TIRED
Depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"

CORNY
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

BANAL
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

BLAND
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

FUSTY
Old-fashioned and out of date

HOHUM

HOARY
Ancient; "hoary jokes"

INAPT
Not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"

MUSTY
Covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

PETTY
Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

SILLY
Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett

USUAL
Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"

VAPID
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"

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BORING
The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

COMMON
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"

JEJUNE
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

MEDIAL
Relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

MEDIAN
The value below which 50% of the cases fall

MEDIUM
An occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"

NORMAL
Something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"

SIMPLE
A person lacking intelligence or common sense

SQUARE
Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"

WATERY
Relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery substance"; "a watery color"

DREARY
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

OLDHAT

7 letters

TRIVIAL
(informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

MUNDANE
Concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

HUMDRUM
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

INSIPID
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

ASININE
Devoid of intelligence

AVERAGE
A statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"

CENTRAL
A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

CLICHED
Repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

FATUOUS
Devoid of intelligence

HACKNEY
A compact breed of harness horse

PROSAIC
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

ROUTINE
An unvarying or habitual method or procedure

SAPLESS
Destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer

TEDIOUS
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

8 letters

BROMIDIC
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

FAMILIAR
A friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"

MEDIOCRE
Moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

MIDDLING
Any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

MODERATE
A person who takes a position in the political center

ORDINARY
An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

STANDARD
The ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community"

TRIFLING
The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

TRUISTIC

WATERISH

WORNTHIN

EVERYDAY
Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

OVERDONE
Cooked too long but still edible

SHOPWORN
Worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price"

TIMEWORN
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

WELLWORN

9 letters

HACKNEYED
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

MOTHEATEN

WELLKNOWN

10 letters

BACKNUMBER

MONOTONOUS
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

NAMBYPAMBY

PEDESTRIAN
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

WARMEDOVER

WISHYWASHY

THREADBARE
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

UNORIGINAL
Not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

11 letters

COMMONPLACE
A trite or obvious remark

BEWHISKERED
Having hair on the cheeks and chin

CUTANDDRIED

STEREOTYPED
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"

12 letters

INTERMEDIARY
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties

INTERMEDIATE
Lying between two extremes in time or space or state; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane"

MILKANDWATER

OVERFAMILIAR
Taking undue liberties; "young women disliked the overfamiliar tone he took with them"

13 letters

UNIMAGINATIVE
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"

PLATITUDINOUS
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

15 letters

MIDDLEOFTHEROAD