| Makes yawn |
USA Today |
06 May 2026 |
| Snoozefests |
Universal |
02 Mar 2026 |
| Floods burrows (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
18 Feb 2026 |
| Drills; sober (anag.) |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
01 Dec 2025 |
| Causes disinterest, this film ... me |
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| Sleep inducers |
Newsday |
28 Jun 2025 |
| Tiresome types |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 May 2025 |
| Being dull, they need a change of robes |
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| Fails to hold, in a way |
LA Times Daily |
27 Apr 2025 |
| Puts to sleep |
Universal |
08 Apr 2025 |
| Dinner party duds |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Feb 2025 |
| Forms a hole |
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| Puts to sleep, say |
New York Times |
01 Jan 2025 |
| Tiresome talkers |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Dec 2024 |
| Fails to enthrall |
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| People who spend all their time at parties talking about the weather, e.g. |
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| Tedious conversationalists |
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| Uninspiring dinner guests |
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| Dull people |
Commuter |
06 Sep 2024 |
| Tedious fellows |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Causes to yawn |
USA Today |
16 Aug 2024 |
| Tidal floods; they go on and on and on … |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
16 Jul 2024 |
| Fails to interest |
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| Brings to tears, perhaps |
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| Tiresome people |
Newsday |
14 May 2024 |
| Makes a hole in |
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| Fails to keep entertained |
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| Snoozefests |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Apr 2024 |
| Drills hole |
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| Goes right on through |
Newsday |
24 Feb 2024 |
| Pierces to form hole |
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| See 21 Down. Mistreated Serb hid behind stronghold of little importance (3,3,5) |
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| Tiresome sorts |
New York Times |
08 Jan 2024 |
| Puts to sleep, say |
New York Times |
24 Dec 2023 |
| Puts to sleep |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Sep 2023 |
| Tiresome people |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Feb 2023 |
| Drills down |
Newsday |
26 Nov 2022 |
| They might put you to sleep |
Universal |
04 Nov 2022 |
| Elicits yawns |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Jul 2022 |
| Drills black minerals |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Jul 2022 |
| Snoozefests |
Universal |
12 Jun 2022 |
| Makes yawn |
USA Today |
02 May 2022 |
| Drills; tedious people |
The Times Concise |
07 Jan 2022 |
| They are tedious drills |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Dec 2021 |
| Causes of much yawning |
LA Times Daily |
03 Oct 2021 |
| Causes of much yawning |
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| Doesn't interest |
USA Today |
04 Sep 2021 |
| Tiresome types |
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| Tiresome types |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2021 |
| Bad sorts to be stuck talking to at a gathering |
New York Times |
14 May 2021 |
| Drills |
Wall Street Journal |
05 May 2021 |
| Drills |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Oct 2020 |
| Uncool ones |
Newsday |
05 Jul 2020 |
| Makes yawn |
New York Times |
08 Jun 2020 |
| Causes to yawn, say |
USA Today |
18 Apr 2020 |
| Yawn inducers |
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| Tedious talkers |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Aug 2019 |
| Causes to yawn |
Newsday |
09 May 2019 |
| Drills |
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| Does nothing at all for |
New York Times |
25 Jan 2019 |
| Does nothing at all for |
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| Tedious talkers |
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| Causes yawning |
Universal |
30 Oct 2018 |
| Unfun sorts |
New York Times |
14 Aug 2018 |
| Tedious folks |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Mar 2018 |
| Unfun sorts |
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| Causes yawning |
|
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| Drills |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Dec 2017 |
| Monotone speakers, usually |
USA Today |
12 Nov 2017 |
| Uninteresting speakers |
Universal |
21 Jul 2017 |
| "The Opera ___ me" (uninteresting) |
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| Tiresome people |
Newsday |
06 Feb 2017 |
| Uses a drill |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Jan 2017 |
| Uninteresting speakers |
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| Monotone speakers, usually |
|
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| Tedious ones |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Aug 2016 |
| Drills |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Jul 2016 |
| Causes to yawn |
USA Today |
07 Jun 2016 |
| Snoozers |
New York Times |
29 Apr 2016 |
| Tiresome sorts |
USA Today |
18 Apr 2016 |
| Drills (through) |
Newsday |
31 Jan 2016 |
| Tedious talkers |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Jan 2016 |
| Causes to yawn |
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| Anesthetizes an entire audience? |
USA Today |
02 Dec 2015 |
| Tiresome talkers |
Newsday |
13 Sep 2015 |
| Many long PowerPoint presentations |
New York Times |
09 Mar 2015 |
| Anesthetizes an entire audience? |
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| Tiresome talkers |
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| Many long PowerPoint presentations |
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| Causes yawns |
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| Yawn inducers |
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| Yawn-spawning speakers |
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| Anesthetizes an entire audience |
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| Tiresome ones |
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| Big yawns |
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| Big yawns |
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| People who tell dull tales |
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| Sleepiness inducers |
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| Inferior speakers |
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| Ear benders |
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| Sleepiness inducers |
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| Yawn inducers |
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| Yawn inducers |
|
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| Didactic types, often |
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| Loses the attention of |
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| Drags |
|
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| Didactic types, often |
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| Uses a drill |
|
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| They make you yawn |
|
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| Makes yawn |
|
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| Brings to tears? |
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| Brings to tears? |
|
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| Makes yawn |
|
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| Causes to yawn, perhaps |
|
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| Tiresome ones |
|
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| Uninspiring lecturers, e.g. |
|
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| Uninspiring lecturers, e.g. |
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| Yawners |
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| Drips |
|
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| Yawners |
|
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| Crummy dates |
|
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| Causes ennui |
|
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| Bad conversationalists |
|
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| Tires |
|
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| Dangerous tidal flows |
|
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| Tires |
|
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| Causes to yawn |
|
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| Drills a hole |
|
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| Causes to yawn |
|
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| Hardly the best guests |
|
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| Goes on and on and on... |
|
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| Puts to sleep |
|
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| Yawn inducers |
|
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| Dull people |
|
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| People who make you yawn |
|
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| Sleep inducers |
|
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| Caliber determinants |
|
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| Wearies |
|
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| Evokes yawns |
|
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| Induces ennui |
|
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| Tiresome talkers |
|
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| Tiresome ones |
|
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| Digs (into) |
|
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| Snoozers |
|
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| Lecturers, at times |
|
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| Pistol stats |
|
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| Causes yawns |
|
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| Sleep inducers |
|
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| Lecturers, at times |
|
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| Real drags |
|
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| Drills |
|
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| Bring to tears? |
|
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| Bring to tears? |
|
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| Real drags |
|
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| Makes a hole |
|
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| Causes ennui |
|
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| Makes holes |
|
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| Drills |
|
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| Anesthetizes an audience |
|
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| Windbags |
|
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| Party poopers |
|
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| Drills |
|
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| They make you yawn |
|
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| Puts to sleep |
|
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| Causes yawning perhaps |
|
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| Attacks crops |
|
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| Unwelcome guests |
|
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| Is wearisome |
|
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| Digs into |
|
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| Evokes yawns |
|
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| Yawn producers |
|
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| Deadheads |
|
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| Calibers |
|
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| Wet blankets and drips |
|
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| Drills |
|
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| Ear benders |
|
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| Gun parts |
|
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| Digs in |
|
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| Pills at parties |
|
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| Ear-benders |
|
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| Earbenders |
|
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| Earbenders, generally |
|
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| Long-winded ones |
|
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| Uses a gimlet |
|
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| Tires |
|
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| Wearies |
|
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| Gun calibers |
|
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| Uses an auger |
|
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| Nonstop talkers. |
|
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| Long-winded people. |
|
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| Uninteresting persons |
|
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| People who talk too much. |
|
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| Uninteresting people. |
|
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| High crested waves. |
|
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| Tiresome things. |
|
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| Afflicts with ennui. |
|
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| Tidal floods. |
|
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| Goes on and on about the recent changes in your child's nap schedule, e.g. |
|
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| Waves in the Bay of Fundy. |
|
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| Goes on and on about minutiae for an hour and a half, say |
|
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| Menaces of the party. |
|
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| Drills. |
|
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| Killjoys. |
|
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| Dull people. |
|
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| Irks. |
|
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| Long-winded ones. |
|
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| Tiresome people. |
|
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| Causes ennui. |
|
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| Prosaic ones. |
|
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| Prolix talkers. |
|
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| Hollow parts of pipes. |
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