| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Nov 2025 |
| Old tales varied (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
06 Nov 2025 |
| Musty (5) |
Mirror Quick |
06 Nov 2025 |
| No longer fresh |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Oct 2025 |
| Like week-old bread |
|
|
| Hackneyed |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Second story is boring (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Oct 2025 |
| Old wives' tales, to some extent (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
10 Oct 2025 |
| No longer fresh, as bread |
|
|
| No longer edible |
Newsday |
05 Oct 2025 |
| Hackneyed conclusion of tedious story |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
30 Sep 2025 |
| Musty (5) |
Mirror Quick |
25 Sep 2025 |
| Old tales varied (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
25 Sep 2025 |
| Lacking freshness (5) |
Mirror Classic |
11 Sep 2025 |
| Like crackers that have lost some crunch |
New York Times Mini |
09 Sep 2025 |
| Not fresh |
Commuter |
08 Sep 2025 |
| Not fresh |
Commuter |
03 Sep 2025 |
| Past its best, as food |
The Telegraph Mini |
31 Aug 2025 |
| Like week-old bread |
|
|
| Tired |
New York Times |
10 Aug 2025 |
| Hard, in a way |
USA Today |
10 Aug 2025 |
| What Jaffa Cakes can become |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
01 Aug 2025 |
| Timeworn |
Newsday |
31 Jul 2025 |
| Opposite of fresh |
Commuter |
29 Jul 2025 |
| No longer fresh |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Fresh loaf 's future status |
|
|
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jul 2025 |
| Steal bananas? Not fresh! |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jul 2025 |
| Like a week-old bagel |
USA Today |
24 Jul 2025 |
| Last half English beer has lost its flavour (5) |
|
|
| No longer fresh |
Universal |
20 Jul 2025 |
| Old, as bread |
|
|
| Trite, hackneyed |
The Times Concise |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Boring |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Beginning of sob story hackneyed |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Not fresh |
Commuter |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Jul 2025 |
| Unlike fresh bread |
|
|
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Jun 2025 |
| Second yarn boring |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Jun 2025 |
| Timeworn |
Newsday |
15 Jun 2025 |
| No longer fresh |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Left out overnight, maybe |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jun 2025 |
| No longer a novelty |
|
|
| No longer fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
02 Jun 2025 |
| No longer fresh, as rolls |
Newsday |
26 May 2025 |
| Fresh no longer |
|
|
| Like old jokes and old bread |
USA Today |
18 May 2025 |
| Least liquid is past its best (5) |
|
|
| Tales is far from fresh ... (5) |
|
|
| Not fresh |
Mirror Tea Time |
28 Apr 2025 |
| 8 are not fresh (5) |
|
|
| Like old pizza |
Universal |
25 Apr 2025 |
| Far from fresh |
New York Times |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Like cookies that were left out for too long, maybe |
|
|
| Not fresh |
Commuter |
22 Apr 2025 |
| Old, as food |
The Telegraph Plusword |
21 Apr 2025 |
| Hardly original |
LA Times Daily |
20 Apr 2025 |
| Least likely to be off (5) |
|
|
| Saint gets drink that's not fresh |
|
|
| Old, musty |
|
|
| At most half the beer is flat (5) |
|
|
| Like crackers after the box is left open |
New York Times Mini |
28 Mar 2025 |
| Like a rock-hard baguette |
USA Today |
25 Mar 2025 |
| Lacking freshness |
Mirror Classic |
24 Mar 2025 |
| Like week-old bread |
|
|
| 11 is far from fresh... (5) |
|
|
| Unimaginative opening of short story (5) |
|
|
| Hackneyed opening in short story (5) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Hackneyed |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Feb 2025 |
| Played out |
LA Times Daily |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Uninspired |
LA Times Daily |
08 Feb 2025 |
| Cliched |
LA Times Daily |
06 Feb 2025 |
| Small lie is off |
|
|
| Not fresh: - bread |
|
|
| Days-old |
|
|
| Small story rehashed (5) |
|
|
| Like the bread that's a couple of days old? |
|
|
| Like old potato chips |
|
|
| Musty |
Mirror Quick |
21 Dec 2024 |
| Old tales varied |
Mirror Cryptic |
21 Dec 2024 |
| Spielberg's West Side Story is hackneyed |
|
|
| Out of practice |
Newsday |
12 Dec 2024 |
| Like bread that's been out too long? |
The Telegraph Plusword |
10 Dec 2024 |
| Old tales rewritten (5) |
|
|
| Like many a dad joke |
New York Times |
23 Nov 2024 |
| Steal bananas? Not fresh! |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Nov 2024 |
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Nov 2024 |
| Way beer becomes less fresh (5) |
|
|
| Overused story following saint primarily (5) |
|
|
| Polar story heard too often? (5) |
|
|
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Nov 2024 |
| Second yarn hackneyed |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Nov 2024 |
| Like week-old bread |
|
|
| Like bread used for stuffing, perhaps |
|
|
| No longer fresh |
Commuter |
01 Nov 2024 |
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Oct 2024 |
| Beginning of sob story tired |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Oct 2024 |
| Old rickety seat the pupil is occupying (5) |
|
|
| Mot fresh anymore |
|
|
| Like month-old cake |
USA Today |
26 Oct 2024 |
| Like old cereal |
|
|
| Like old bread |
|
|
| Like old jokes |
Universal |
22 Oct 2024 |
| Flat, like beer |
|
|
| Like jokes you've heard ten times already |
|
|
| Threadbare, trite (5) |
|
|
| Like week-old injera. probably |
USA Today |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Second story is a bit old (5) |
|
|
| Musty |
Mirror Quick |
10 Oct 2024 |
| Outdated tales varied |
Mirror Cryptic |
10 Oct 2024 |
| Second story is boring |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Oct 2024 |
| No longer fresh |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Oct 2024 |
| Left in the seat to be mended. It's old (5) |
|
|
| Overused and uncreative |
New York Times |
30 Sep 2024 |
| Not fresh |
Universal |
30 Sep 2024 |
| Not fresh (of bread) (5) |
|
|
| The old chalet's finally demolished (5) |
|
|
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Sep 2024 |
| Dry, as bread |
|
|
| Not fresh |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
18 Sep 2024 |
| Like a cliched piece of writing or an old piece of bread |
|
|
| Old, initially sad story |
|
|
| Like week-old naan |
USA Today |
10 Sep 2024 |
| Like day-old bread |
Commuter |
10 Sep 2024 |
| Like old bread |
|
|
| Like week-old noon |
|
|
| Old tales re-edited |
|
|
| Like bread ready to be used in stuffing |
|
|
| Steal liquid no longer fresh (5) |
|
|
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Aug 2024 |
| Beginning of sob story hackneyed |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Aug 2024 |
| Old, lacking freshness (5) |
|
|
| Good fellow with beer not fresh |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Second yarn boring |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Aug 2024 |
| Overused |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Aug 2024 |
| So, so overused |
USA Today |
18 Aug 2024 |
| Like bread that's gone bad |
|
|
| Day-old |
|
|
| Not fresh |
The Telegraph Plusword |
09 Aug 2024 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Aug 2024 |
| Second story got old |
Mirror Cryptic |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Musty |
Mirror Quick |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Tired |
New York Times |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Like moldy bread |
|
|
| Not fresh, as bread |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
17 Jul 2024 |
| Far from fresh |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Jul 2024 |
| Least fresh? Not fresh at all |
|
|
| Not fresh |
Commuter |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Not fresh |
The Telegraph Plusword |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Not new in the least! |
|
|
| Although there's a point to the story, it's trite (5) |
|
|
| Like an old bagel |
|
|
| Like bread for stuffing |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jun 2024 |
| Not fresh |
Mirror Tea Time |
08 Jun 2024 |
| Not fresh; least (anag.) |
The Telegraph Mini |
27 May 2024 |
| Fusty |
|
|
| Like food that's no longer fresh ...or a hint to solve 19a, 33a, 44a, 15d, and 43d |
|
|
| Hackneyed |
Wall Street Journal |
23 May 2024 |
| Old and funny tales (5) |
|
|
| Not fresh |
Commuter |
21 May 2024 |
| Like hard bread |
USA Today |
17 May 2024 |
| Opposite of fresh |
Commuter |
13 May 2024 |
| The opposite of fresh |
|
|
| For a second time, drink was past its best (5) |
|
|
| Hard, unfresh (bread) (5) |
|
|
| No longer fresh, as old bread |
|
|
| Past the shelf date |
|
|
| Unfresh (5) |
|
|
| Not fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2024 |
| At least I'm not fresh! (5) |
|
|
| Musty |
Mirror Quick |
11 Apr 2024 |
| Old tales are translated |
Mirror Cryptic |
11 Apr 2024 |
| Not at all fresh |
|
|
| Like cut-rate bread |
|
|
| Some of his talent is no longer fresh (5) |
|
|
| Like old French bread |
|
|
| Off, least off (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 Mar 2024 |
| Like week-old bread |
|
|
| Second story was past its best (5) |
|
|
| Least likely to order what's off (5) |
|
|
| Musty |
Mirror Quick |
01 Mar 2024 |
| Old tales improved |
Mirror Cryptic |
01 Mar 2024 |
| Least (anag.) (5) |
|
|
| Like chips that have been out for too long |
|
|
| No longer fresh or pleasant to eat (5) |
|
|
| Hackneyed, tired (5) |
|
|
| Musty |
Mirror Quick |
01 Feb 2024 |
| New tales got old |
Mirror Cryptic |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Not fresh |
Mirror Tea Time |
28 Jan 2024 |
| No longer fresh |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Jan 2024 |
| Like bread past its use-by date |
|
|
| Lacking freshness |
Mirror Classic |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Like jokes you've heard umpteen times before |
|
|
| Hard, like an old bagel |
|
|
| Old tales get translated |
Mirror Cryptic |
16 Dec 2023 |
| Musty |
Mirror Quick |
16 Dec 2023 |
| No longer fresh |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Dec 2023 |
| Second story is boring |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Dec 2023 |
| Like old bread |
Universal |
07 Dec 2023 |
| Not fresh anymore |
Newsday |
05 Dec 2023 |
| Trite |
LA Times Mini |
27 Nov 2023 |
| Far from fresh |
LA Times Daily |
08 Nov 2023 |
| Not fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
06 Nov 2023 |
| Lacking creativity |
New York Times |
21 Oct 2023 |
| No longer edible |
Newsday |
10 Oct 2023 |
| No longer fresh |
Newsday |
17 Sep 2023 |
| Overused |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2023 |
| Like bread for French toast, ideally |
Universal |
25 Aug 2023 |
| Musty, as air |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Aug 2023 |
| Shopworn |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Jul 2023 |
| Like a rock-hard roll |
Universal |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Like moldy bread |
|
|
| Past its use-by date, maybe |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Jun 2023 |
| Trite |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Jun 2023 |
| Outdated, as a slice of bread |
|
|
| Like an old doughnut |
Universal |
05 Jun 2023 |
| Like bread that's no longer fresh |
|
|
| Not fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
16 May 2023 |
| Like old bread |
|
|
| Not fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
02 May 2023 |
| Flat, as cola |
Premier Sunday |
23 Apr 2023 |
| Like week-old bread |
|
|
| Played out |
Newsday |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Mar 2023 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Feb 2023 |
| Like yesterday's xiaolongbao |
USA Today |
01 Feb 2023 |
| No longer novel |
LA Times Daily |
22 Jan 2023 |
| No longer fresh, as rolls |
Newsday |
23 Nov 2022 |
| Bread suitable to make croutons |
|
|
| Like April's bread in June |
Family Time |
13 Nov 2022 |
| Trite |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Nov 2022 |
| Not fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
31 Oct 2022 |
| Like some unpleasant air |
New York Times |
07 Oct 2022 |
| No longer fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
05 Oct 2022 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Aug 2022 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Jul 2022 |
| Like week-old bagels |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jul 2022 |
| Like moldy bread |
|
|
| Lose its spark, as a relationship |
New York Times |
19 Jun 2022 |
| Like day-old donuts |
|
|
| Past its best |
Thomas Joseph |
06 May 2022 |
| Like hard bread |
Universal |
23 Apr 2022 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Like month-old bread |
USA Today |
14 Apr 2022 |
| Not fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
13 Apr 2022 |
| Like old bread |
USA Today |
08 Apr 2022 |
| Like the bread in stuffing |
USA Today |
29 Mar 2022 |
| No longer fresh |
USA Today |
28 Mar 2022 |
| No longer fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
22 Mar 2022 |
| No longer edible |
Newsday |
02 Mar 2022 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Past its use-by date |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Feb 2022 |
| No longer fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
07 Feb 2022 |
| Like old baozi |
USA Today |
01 Feb 2022 |
| Like last night's leftovers |
|
|
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Jan 2022 |
| Like bread past its use-by date |
|
|
| Like yesterday’s doughnuts |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Jan 2022 |
| Like old bread |
|
|
| Like old bread |
USA Today |
20 Dec 2021 |
| Not fresh |
Universal |
08 Dec 2021 |
| Like old bread |
|
|
| Mouldy |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Nov 2021 |
| Like hard bagels |
The Washington Post Sunday |
07 Nov 2021 |
| Not fresh |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Nov 2021 |
| Like old bread |
USA Today |
30 Oct 2021 |
| Past its best |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Oct 2021 |
| Trite |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Oct 2021 |
| Like old donuts |
USA Today |
08 Oct 2021 |
| No longer fresh |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Oct 2021 |
| Old hat |
LA Times Daily |
02 Oct 2021 |
| Old hat |
The Washington Post |
02 Oct 2021 |
| Like old bread |
USA Today |
25 Sep 2021 |
| Like old bread |
Universal |
19 Sep 2021 |
| Like day-old mantou, probably |
USA Today |
12 Sep 2021 |
| Flat |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2021 |
| Flat |
The Washington Post |
01 Sep 2021 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Aug 2021 |
| No longer edible |
Newsday |
18 Aug 2021 |
| No longer fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
10 Aug 2021 |
| Not fresh anymore |
USA Today |
31 Jul 2021 |
| Hardly new |
LA Times Daily |
11 Jul 2021 |
| Hardly new |
The Washington Post |
11 Jul 2021 |
| Not fresh anymore |
USA Today |
10 Jul 2021 |
| Old and hard to eat |
USA Today |
02 Jul 2021 |
| Shopworn |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Jun 2021 |
| Like old pizza |
Universal |
05 Jun 2021 |
| Like April's bread in June |
Family Time |
30 May 2021 |
| No longer fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
24 May 2021 |
| Mouldy |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Apr 2021 |
| Like an old joke |
LA Times Daily |
28 Apr 2021 |
| Like an old joke |
The Washington Post |
28 Apr 2021 |
| Like many dad jokes |
LA Times Daily |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Like many dad jokes |
The Washington Post |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Hardly original |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Apr 2021 |
| Like old jokes |
Universal |
25 Mar 2021 |
| Not fresh, as bread |
Newsday |
15 Mar 2021 |
| Storyteller's first yarn lacking originality |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Feb 2021 |
| Out of practice |
Newsday |
21 Feb 2021 |
| Past its best |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Feb 2021 |
| Like bread used for stuffing |
USA Today |
07 Feb 2021 |
| No longer exciting |
USA Today |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Second story is boring |
|
|
| Second story, no longer new |
|
|
| Not fresh |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Dec 2020 |
| Trite |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Nov 2020 |
| Hackneyed |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Nov 2020 |
| No longer fresh |
|
|
| Like hard rolls |
The Washington Post Sunday |
13 Sep 2020 |
| Food unfit to eat |
|
|
| Like old bread |
USA Today |
15 Aug 2020 |
| Second story is insipid |
The Telegraph Toughie |
29 Jul 2020 |
| No longer edible |
Newsday |
23 Jul 2020 |
| Like bread used for stuffing, often |
New York Times |
21 Jul 2020 |
| Food that is no longer fresh |
|
|
| No longer fresh, as old bread |
Newsday |
13 Jul 2020 |
| Far from original |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Clichéd |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jun 2020 |
| Clichéd |
The Washington Post |
10 Jun 2020 |
| Uninspired by Dickens' last work of fiction? |
|
|
| No longer fresh |
USA Today |
04 May 2020 |
| Antonym of "fresh" |
|
|
| Timeworn |
Newsday |
08 Mar 2020 |
| Tired of Street-Porter? |
|
|
| Well past its prime |
The Washington Post |
19 Jan 2020 |
| Well past its prime |
LA Times Daily |
19 Jan 2020 |
| Boringly familiar |
Canadiana |
06 Jan 2020 |
| Like week-old bread |
|
|
| Good fellow on the beer becoming overfamiliar |
|
|
| No longer fresh |
|
|
| Food that is far from fresh |
|
|
| Food that's lived too long |
|
|
| When something is old or outdated, as with bread |
|
|
| Antonym of fresh |
|
|
| Second pork pie, minimal |
|
|
| Old table top found amongst discounted items |
|
|
| Old? Makes least difference |
|
|
| Least worried about flat |
|
|
| Beginning of sob story, hackneyed |
|
|
| Uninteresting second report |
|
|
| Tired nation has left for the second time |
|
|
| Unoriginal opening to short story |
|
|