| Dull and cheerless (rhymes with "grab") |
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| Unexciting, dreary |
The Times Concise |
17 Nov 2025 |
| Dull-colored |
Newsday |
09 Nov 2025 |
| Dull-colored |
Newsday |
04 Nov 2025 |
| Colorless |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Nov 2025 |
| Dreary |
LA Times Daily |
29 Oct 2025 |
| Visually dull |
Commuter |
25 Oct 2025 |
| Dull doctor meeting a bishop (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Oct 2025 |
| Dull doctor meeting a bishop (4) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
18 Oct 2025 |
| Dowdy |
Puzzler Backwords |
15 Oct 2025 |
| Dull in color |
Commuter |
11 Oct 2025 |
| Dully colored |
Universal |
01 Oct 2025 |
| Blah in color |
Universal |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Far from bright |
New York Times |
31 Aug 2025 |
| Boring sort of bard (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
06 Aug 2025 |
| Dull (4) |
Mirror Quick |
06 Aug 2025 |
| Dull |
USA Today Quick |
05 Aug 2025 |
| Dull |
The Times Sunday Concise |
03 Aug 2025 |
| Dull and cheerless |
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| Nondescript |
Newsday |
20 Jul 2025 |
| Dull river crossed by fish |
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| Dull-colored |
USA Today |
30 Jun 2025 |
| Dreary poet making comeback (4) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
29 Jun 2025 |
| Colorless |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jun 2025 |
| Lackluster |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2025 |
| Dull (4) |
Mirror Quick |
18 Jun 2025 |
| Boring sort of bard (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
18 Jun 2025 |
| Visually dull |
Commuter |
12 Jun 2025 |
| Boring, as a color |
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| Verse-writer turned dull (4) |
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| Dull |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
26 May 2025 |
| Dowdy |
Puzzler Backwords |
18 May 2025 |
| Dreary bard came back (4) |
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| Dingy (4) |
Puzzler |
11 May 2025 |
| Dull, gloomy |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
07 May 2025 |
| Boring, colourless (4) |
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| Washed out |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Apr 2025 |
| It's dull for a doctor and a sailor (4) |
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| Dull and colorless, as clothes |
|
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| Dull, light-brown colour, named after a fabric of undyed, homespun wool (4) |
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| Uninteresting |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
19 Mar 2025 |
| Blah |
|
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| Dull-colored |
New York Times |
10 Mar 2025 |
| Dull poet's retrospective (4) |
|
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| Sans pizzazz |
LA Times Mini |
26 Feb 2025 |
| Dull poet on the up (4) |
|
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| Dreary Shakespeare sent up (4) |
|
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| Drive taxi dropping Charlie to arrive at flat |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Feb 2025 |
| Lacklustre, dull |
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| Dull medic is given a book (4) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
09 Feb 2025 |
| In need of a makeover |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Feb 2025 |
| Dull, dingy (4) |
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| Lackluster |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Jan 2025 |
| Dull and colorless |
|
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| Colourless, uninteresting (4) |
|
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| Dull poet makes a comeback (4) |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
27 Dec 2024 |
| Not very exciting |
LA Times Daily |
15 Dec 2024 |
| Dull, uninteresting |
Puzzler Backwords |
14 Dec 2024 |
| Dull |
USA Today Quick |
10 Dec 2024 |
| Grey swan drifts back (4) |
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| Boring sort of bard |
Mirror Cryptic |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Dull |
Mirror Quick |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Not brightly colored |
Newsday |
19 Nov 2024 |
| Lacklustre |
Puzzler Backwords |
18 Nov 2024 |
| Rather dull adaptation of the Bard (4) |
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| Dull in color |
Newsday |
13 Nov 2024 |
| Olive ___ (greenish-gray color worn by soldiers) |
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| Colourless |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
21 Oct 2024 |
| Lacking brightness |
Newsday |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Grey, unexciting (4) |
Puzzler |
09 Oct 2024 |
| Bad back, right, in drear setting? (4) |
|
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| Dull in appearance |
|
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| Uninteresting minstrel makes a comeback (4) |
|
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| Dull-colored |
Newsday |
23 Sep 2024 |
| Grey is Gray, say, on reflection? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Sep 2024 |
| Plain in colour |
|
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| Miserable poet on the up (4) |
|
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| Very dull |
Commuter |
13 Sep 2024 |
| Doctor Jack's so dull (4) |
|
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| Dull poet taken up |
|
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| Ho-hum |
USA Today |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Monotonous Celtic poet is returning (4) |
|
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| Tedious |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Aug 2024 |
| Being dull, the seaman is after a doctor (4) |
|
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| Lackluster |
Premier Sunday |
04 Aug 2024 |
| Cheerless physician describes blood type |
|
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| Dull artist found in Germany and Belgium (4) |
|
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| Drearily dull |
Premier Sunday |
30 Jun 2024 |
| Burns up grey cloth (4) |
|
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| Sans pizzazz |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Jun 2024 |
| Cheerless |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jun 2024 |
| Dreary Shakespeare thrown back |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jun 2024 |
| Dull green uniform colour, olive - - - (4) |
|
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| Rather dull sailor put under a doctor (4) |
|
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| Dull-colored |
Universal |
17 Jun 2024 |
| Less than colorful |
Newsday |
16 Jun 2024 |
| Dull, colourless |
The Times Concise |
13 Jun 2024 |
| Boring, as a color |
|
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| Shakespeare's return is dull (4) |
|
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| Colorless |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Jun 2024 |
| Blah in color |
Universal |
29 May 2024 |
| Dull Celtic poet making a comeback (4) |
|
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| Cheerless |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
26 May 2024 |
| Found in tundra blackened and cheerless |
|
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| Dull, featureless (4) |
The Guardian Speedy |
19 May 2024 |
| Dowdy & dull |
|
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| Dull Celtic poet is making a comeback (4) |
|
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| Dull and colorless (anagram of "bard") |
|
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| Dull poet turned up (4) |
|
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| Dreary, color-wise |
|
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| Dull poet given a rise (4) |
|
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| Sans pizzazz |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Apr 2024 |
| ...Backward Celtic poet is monotonous (4) |
|
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| Dull and monotonous |
|
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| Dull and colorless, as clothes |
|
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| Colorless |
New York Times |
28 Mar 2024 |
| Boring |
LA Times Daily |
27 Mar 2024 |
| The river fish caught is not at all colourful |
|
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| A bard is apt to be backward, dull and monotonous (4) |
|
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| Dreary |
USA Today |
06 Mar 2024 |
| Of a dull colour (4) |
|
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| Dull sort of bard (4) |
|
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| Drear, right, with a bad back? (4) |
|
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| Muddy looking minstrel returning (4) |
|
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| Dull |
New York Times |
17 Feb 2024 |
| Colorless |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Feb 2024 |
| Shakespeare's write-up is uninteresting (4) |
|
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| Uninspired medieval performer turned up |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Feb 2024 |
| Uninspired medieval performer turned up (4) |
|
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| Dull in color |
Newsday |
05 Feb 2024 |
| A doctor sees a sailor as being dull and monotonous |
|
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| Inspiring a "zzzz" |
|
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| Cheerless |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jan 2024 |
| Gloomy linesman on the way back (4) |
|
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| Dull in color |
Commuter |
15 Dec 2023 |
| Cheerless Celtic poet sent up |
|
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| Lackluster |
Commuter |
05 Dec 2023 |
| Dull-colored |
New York Times |
06 Nov 2023 |
| Grey crustacean -- when head gets five times bigger |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Oct 2023 |
| Colorless |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Oct 2023 |
| Dull |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Oct 2023 |
| Sailor under the doctor, looking bleak |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Sep 2023 |
| Dull-colored |
Newsday |
04 Sep 2023 |
| Dull and colorless (anagram of "brad") |
|
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| Colorless |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Aug 2023 |
| Colorless |
Premier Sunday |
06 Aug 2023 |
| Dull and lackluster (anagram of "bard") |
|
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| Dull |
The Guardian Quick |
13 Jul 2023 |
| Colorless |
Newsday |
25 Apr 2023 |
| Colorless |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Dull |
LA Times Daily |
05 Mar 2023 |
| Polar opposite of exciting (anagram of "bard") |
|
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| Dull in color |
Newsday |
10 Jan 2023 |
| Dull in color |
Universal |
03 Jan 2023 |
| Lackluster |
LA Times Daily |
15 Dec 2022 |
| Far from colorful |
USA Today |
14 Dec 2022 |
| Washed out |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Dec 2022 |
| Dull poet from the East |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Nov 2022 |
| Dull and colorless |
|
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| Dreary and dull |
LA Times Daily |
28 Sep 2022 |
| Dull in color |
Newsday |
05 Sep 2022 |
| Visually blah |
New York Times |
30 Aug 2022 |
| Gray and dreary |
USA Today |
29 Jul 2022 |
| Lacking color |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jul 2022 |
| Lacking luster |
|
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| Sans sparkle |
USA Today |
28 Jun 2022 |
| Dull poet on the rise |
The Times Cryptic |
23 Jun 2022 |
| Evoking a "meh" (anagram of "bard") |
|
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| Colorless |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Jun 2022 |
| Drearily dull |
The Times Concise |
14 May 2022 |
| Dull-colored |
Universal |
02 May 2022 |
| Dull in color |
Universal |
11 Apr 2022 |
| Dull and colorless |
|
|
| Dull-looking |
The Washington Post |
28 Mar 2022 |
| Dull-looking |
LA Times Daily |
28 Mar 2022 |
| Lackluster |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Mar 2022 |
| Just plain plain |
The Washington Post |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Just plain plain |
LA Times Daily |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Colorless |
LA Times Daily |
11 Mar 2022 |
| Colorless |
The Washington Post |
11 Mar 2022 |
| Dull and colorless |
|
|
| Gloomy poet retires |
|
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| Far from flashy |
The Washington Post |
25 Jan 2022 |
| Far from flashy |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jan 2022 |
| Lacking color |
New York Times |
23 Jan 2022 |
| Not colorful |
Newsday |
19 Jan 2022 |
| Dull and colorless |
|
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| Visually plain |
Universal |
15 Dec 2021 |
| Lacking colour |
The Guardian Quick |
10 Dec 2021 |
| Lacking in color |
Universal |
05 Dec 2021 |
| Washed out |
USA Today |
29 Nov 2021 |
| Tip from Dominic Raab: dismissing answer is dull |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Nov 2021 |
| Dull poet is sent back |
|
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| Far from colorful |
Newsday |
05 Sep 2021 |
| Totally uninteresting |
|
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| Dreary poet returns |
|
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| Dull and colorless |
|
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| Dull-colored |
New York Times |
26 Jul 2021 |
| Drearily dull |
Premier Sunday |
13 Jun 2021 |
| Not at all colorful |
Newsday |
04 May 2021 |
| Dull and cheerless |
|
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| Not colorful at all |
Family Time |
02 May 2021 |
| Not that exciting |
The Washington Post Sunday |
02 May 2021 |
| Dull and dreary |
Universal |
21 Apr 2021 |
| Hardly flashy |
Universal |
18 Apr 2021 |
| Lackluster |
Newsday |
28 Mar 2021 |
| Colorless |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Mar 2021 |
| Way too boring |
|
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| Dull-colored |
New York Times |
01 Mar 2021 |
| Dull-colored |
Universal |
25 Feb 2021 |
| Dull and cheerless (rhymes with "grab") |
|
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| Dull in color |
Newsday |
12 Jan 2021 |
| Not very bright |
New York Times |
26 Dec 2020 |
| Lacking oomph |
USA Today |
17 Dec 2020 |
| Dull and dreary |
USA Today |
16 Dec 2020 |
| Dull and cheerless |
|
|
| Drearily dull |
The Times Concise |
02 Nov 2020 |
| Reading up Shakespeare is dull |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Oct 2020 |
| Opposite of colorful |
New York Times |
29 Sep 2020 |
| Dull in color |
USA Today |
19 Aug 2020 |
| Dull retrospective look at lyricist |
|
|
| Blah |
Universal |
02 Aug 2020 |
| Uncolorful |
Newsday |
05 Jul 2020 |
| Humdrum |
USA Today |
03 Jul 2020 |
| Dull-colored |
USA Today |
28 Jun 2020 |
| Uninteresting |
The Washington Post |
21 Jun 2020 |
| Uninteresting |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jun 2020 |
| Lacking pizazz |
New York Times |
16 Jun 2020 |
| Gray, say |
New York Times |
10 Jun 2020 |
| Totally blah |
Universal |
22 May 2020 |
| Dull and dreary |
Wall Street Journal |
04 May 2020 |
| Dull |
USA Today |
27 Apr 2020 |
| Blah |
The Washington Post |
05 Apr 2020 |
| Blah |
LA Times Daily |
05 Apr 2020 |
| Not very bright |
Newsday |
04 Apr 2020 |
| Lacking color |
Premier Sunday |
23 Feb 2020 |
| Dull Persian poet |
|
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| Dull in colour |
|
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| Tar on road turned grey |
|
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| Dull and colorless |
|
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| Dull and colorless (rhymes with "grab") |
|
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| Grey flatfish crossing river |
|
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| Lacking brightness, poet is sent up |
|
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| Dull-brown bones seaman found |
|
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| Dull and backward poet |
|
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| Dull in colour |
|
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| Shabby poet recalled |
|
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| Boring research originally introduced by expert |
|
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| Rather dull old poet from the east |
|
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| Poor reader initially held up – 'It's boring'… |
|
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| Dull poet making a comeback |
|
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| Poet turned dull |
|
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| Rather dull sailor put under the doctor |
|
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| Dull spot around Reading, for example |
|
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| Flipping poet's boring |
|
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| About end of year you'll find expert getting gloomy |
|
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| Upcoming poet is boring |
|
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| Dreary versifier on way back |
|
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| In recession pub's deserted – that's boring |
|
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| Poet's going round with loose woman |
|
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