Commonplace
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

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

4 letters

FAIR
A traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

POOR
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"

BLAH
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

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

DULL
Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

ZERO
The sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing

CORN
Something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"

5 letters

BASIC
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

CHEAP
Relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"

PROSE
Matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

LOWLY
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

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

DAILY
Of or belonging to or occurring every day; "daily routine"; "a daily paper"

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

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

HOKEY
Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

STALE
Urinate, of cattle and horses

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

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"

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'"

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'"

STOCK
Any animals kept for use or profit

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

TRIPE
Lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food

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

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

HOKUM
A message that seems to convey no meaning

PLAIN
Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

BANAL

MOTTO
A favorite saying of a sect or political group

HOHUM

MAXIM
A saying that is widely accepted on its own merits

6 letters

SAYING
A word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"

PABLUM
A soft form of cereal for infants

STARCH
A commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

MIDWAY
Naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands

SMOOTH
The act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"

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"

OLDHAT

CLICHE
A trite or obvious remark

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

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

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

GARDEN
A yard or lawn adjoining a house

STAPLE
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

FORMAL
A gown for evening wear

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

HUMBLE
Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski

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"

PHRASE
Dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence

TRUISM
An obvious truth

STUPID
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"

7 letters

VANILLA
A distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans

NOPLACE

NATURAL
(craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

NOTHING
A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

ROUTINE
An unvarying or habitual method or procedure

REGULAR
A dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars"

OBVIOUS
Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "obvious errors"

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

INANITY
Total lack of meaning or ideas

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

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"

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

OLDLINE
Adhering to conservative or reactionary principles; "an oldline senator"

WORNOUT
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"

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

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"

BROMIDE
A trite or obvious remark

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

SPARTAN
A resident of Sparta

TYPICAL
Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!"

GENERAL
A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular"

NOWHERE
Not anywhere; in or at or to no place; "I am going nowhere"

CORNFED

PLEBIAN

8 letters

OVERUSED

PROSAISM

CORNBALL

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

WELLWORN

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'"

FREQUENT
Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

BANALITY
A trite or obvious remark

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

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

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

WORKADAY
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

INFERIOR
One of lesser rank or station or quality

REPEATED
Recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"

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

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

ACCEPTED
Generally approved or compelling recognition; "several accepted techniques for treating the condition"; "his recognized superiority in this kind of work"

CHESTNUT
The brown color of chestnuts

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

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COLORLESS
Lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade"

CUSTOMARY
Commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"

HIDEBOUND
Stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded