| Most hackneyed |
Premier Sunday |
02 Aug 2026 |
| Least fresh |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
08 May 2026 |
| Most trite |
Commuter |
27 Apr 2026 |
| Least original |
Premier Sunday |
14 Dec 2025 |
| Most like a chestnut |
LA Times Daily |
27 Sep 2025 |
| Least fresh, as a bagel |
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| Least fresh, ___ bread |
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| Least fresh, ... bread |
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| Good man accepted fables are the least recent (7) |
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| Least innovative |
Newsday |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Least fresh |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
22 Aug 2024 |
| Most hackneyed stories set in stone (7) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
11 Aug 2024 |
| Most hackneyed stories set in stone (7) |
The Guardian Quick |
11 Aug 2024 |
| Most hackneyed stories set in stone (7) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
10 Aug 2024 |
| Most hackneyed stories set in stone (7) |
The Guardian Quick |
10 Aug 2024 |
| Second time catching story's most boring |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 May 2024 |
| Driest (bread) (7) |
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| Some of the best ale still is anything but fresh (7) |
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| Stories told in the street are the most dry (7) |
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| Least original |
LA Times Daily |
14 Sep 2023 |
| Least fresh |
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| Least fresh |
LA Times Daily |
10 Apr 2022 |
| Least fresh |
Universal |
01 Feb 2022 |
| Most banal way to suppress rumours |
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| Least original |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Feb 2020 |
| Least newsworthy |
Newsday |
15 Jun 2019 |
| Most hackneyed |
USA Today |
29 May 2019 |
| Most crusty, perhaps |
Universal |
10 Feb 2019 |
| Least innovative |
Newsday |
31 Jan 2019 |
| Most hackneyed |
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| Most crusty, perhaps |
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| Like the oldest bread |
LA Times Daily |
27 Nov 2018 |
| Like the oldest bread |
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| Least fresh |
Premier Sunday |
13 May 2018 |
| Like the oldest bread |
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| Most trite |
USA Today |
31 Dec 2017 |
| Most trite |
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| Least fresh |
Newsday |
11 Jul 2016 |
| Furthest from the freshest |
Universal |
08 Jun 2016 |
| Passé to the max |
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| Furthest from the freshest |
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| Least fresh, as bread |
Universal |
26 Dec 2015 |
| Most hackneyed stories, in a way |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Dec 2015 |
| Trite to the max |
USA Today |
10 Dec 2015 |
| Hardest, as bread |
Universal |
08 Jun 2015 |
| Hardest, as bread |
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| Trite to the max |
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| Least fresh, as bread |
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| Least fresh |
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| Most clichéd |
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| Most musty |
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| Most tired |
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| Most hackneyed |
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| Superlatively ancient joke |
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| Unsurpassingly unoriginal |
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| Unoriginal to the max |
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| Like the most ancient joke |
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| Least appetizing, as bread |
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| Like the most ancient joke |
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| Most dried-out, as bread |
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| Most old-hat |
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| Superlatively stagnant |
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| Least appetizing |
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| Least fresh |
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| Most passe |
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| Least original |
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| Like the oldest jokes |
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| Like the oldest jokes |
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| Least creative |
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| Most musty |
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| Showing the least originality |
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| Least original |
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| Most overused |
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| Least original |
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| Most like a chestnut |
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| Most moldy, maybe |
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| Least original |
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| Superlatively trite |
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| Most musty |
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| Least original |
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| Least salable, perhaps |
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| Most overused |
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| Most familiar |
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| Least fresh |
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| Trite to the max |
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| Passe in the extreme |
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| Least newsworthy |
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| Most outdated |
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| Most unoriginal |
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| Most vapid |
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| Most trite |
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| Most hackneyed |
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| Least fresh |
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| Most uninteresting |
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| Oldest, as jokes |
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| Most vapid. |
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| Least fresh. |
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| Least interesting. |
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| Tritest. |
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| Flattest. |
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| Driest. |
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| Oldest, as news. |
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| Most corny. |
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| Describing the state of ancient jokes |
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| Most stereotyped |
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