Answer: STALE
STALE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 169 times.
Referring Clues:
- Unfresh
- Past its prime
- Several-days-old
- Like an old joke
- Old hat
- Tired
- Unoriginal
- Days-old
- Past the shelf date
- Like week-old doughnuts
- Like chestnuts
- Like Halloween candy in December
- Like chips that have been set out too long
- Like week-old bread
- Like an old cigar
- Played out
- No longer fresh
- Past the expiration date
- Flat
- Like old bread
- No longer in style
- Not fresh
- Like a day-old baguette
- Passe
- Stuffy, as air
- Banal
- Like uncirculated air
- Hackneyed
- Like an old bagel
- Like week-old bread, possibly
- Moth-eaten
- Cliché-ridden
- Like a tough cookie?
- Boring
- Like yesterday's baguette
- Old
- Flat, like beer
- Too old to eat
- Overused
- Trite
- Hoary
- Timeworn
- Dated
- Shopworn
- Told too often
- Too hard, as bread
- Musty
- Lacking originality
- In need of freshening
- Like jokes you've heard before
- No longer novel
- Like old gossip
- In need of an update
- Like dated food
- Having lost effervescence
- Lacking originality, as a joke
- Like bread for pigeons
- Done to death
- Clichéd
- Like rock-hard bread
- Like several-days-old bread
- Like day-old donuts
- Like last week's bread
- Hard, as bread
- Like days-old bread
- Fusty
- Old-hat
- No longer interesting
- Well past the sell-by date
- Like many a crossword clue for the word OREO, or like old Oreos
- Like an old loaf
- Tedious
- Like an old loaf
- Like old cigarettes
- Turned hard(6)
- Like some jokes
- Past its best
- Far from fresh
- Monsters
- Flat, as cola
- No longer edible
- Like old rolls
- Like old donuts
- Past its sell-by date
- Like dry bread
- Way old
- Old, as a joke
- So yesterday
- Hardly original
- Vapid
- Not in the least fresh
- Too-familiar
- Like yesterday's bagels
- Far from original
- Flat, as soda
- Like yesterday's news
- Like some humor
- Told and retold
- Past the "Sell By" date, perhaps
- Like hard bread
- Lacking freshness
- Less than fresh
- Out of practice
- Flat, as pop
- Dry, as bread
- Dusty, fusty or musty
- Like bread made into stuffing, perhaps
- Lacking in originality
- No longer crisp, in a way
- Well past its prime
- Hard to swallow
- Ready for the birds
- Hardly fresh
- Flat, as a soda
- So yesterday, say
- Opposite of fresh
- *Hackneyed
- Long past the shelf date
- Past its "sell by" date, perhaps
- Far from avant-garde
- Like yesterday's donuts
- No longer fresh, as bread
- Not fresh, as bread
- Way past the sell-by date
- Warmed-over
- Humdrum, as humor
- Past the "sell by" date, maybe
- Fresh no more
- Overfamiliar
- All too familiar
- No longer a novelty
- Like old jokes or popcorn
- Like cola with no fizz
- Like twice-told tales
- Fresh? Don't make me laugh
- Out-of-date
- Old, as bread
- Like bread for croutons
- Hardened, maybe
- Like many bad jokes
- Like two-week-old bread
- Like a beaten-to-death joke
- Like last week's buns
- Past the sell-by date, say
- Like week-old bread, often
- Old and worn
- No longer fresh, as old bread
- Like bread used for stuffing, often
- Old food
- No longer exciting
- Like old jokes
- Like many dad jokes
- Like old pizza
- Old and hard to eat
- Hardly new
- Mouldy
- Like the bread ideal for bread pudding
- Like old baozi
- Like the bread in stuffing
- Like month-old bread
- Lose its spark, as a relationship
- Like some unpleasant air
- Like yesterday's xiaolongbao
- Lacking creativity
- Like bread for stuffing
- Like week-old naan
- Overused and uncreative
- Like week-old injera, probably
- Like many a dad joke
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - November 23, 2024
- USA Today - October 15, 2024
- New York Times - September 30, 2024
- USA Today - September 10, 2024
- New York Times - July 19, 2024
- LA Times - June 12, 2024
- USA Today - May 17, 2024
- LA Times - November 08, 2023
- New York Times - October 21, 2023
- LA Times - September 01, 2023
- USA Today - February 01, 2023
- LA Times - January 22, 2023
- New York Times - October 07, 2022
- New York Times - October 01, 2022
- New York Times - June 19, 2022
- USA Today - April 14, 2022
- USA Today - April 08, 2022
- USA Today - March 29, 2022
- USA Today - March 28, 2022
- USA Today - February 01, 2022
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