| Frayed, perhaps |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Mar 2026 |
| Tattered |
The Washington Post Mini |
20 Mar 2026 |
| Frayed |
New York Times |
25 Jan 2026 |
| Shabby |
LA Times Daily |
31 Dec 2025 |
| Threadbare |
The Times Sunday Concise |
14 Sep 2025 |
| Shabby |
Commuter |
25 Aug 2025 |
| Threadbare |
New York Times |
21 Jul 2025 |
| Shabby |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
21 Jul 2025 |
| Frayed |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Ratty-looking |
|
|
| Weather-beaten |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Threadbare |
New York Times |
09 Mar 2025 |
| Exhausted: -out |
|
|
| Weather-beaten |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
06 Mar 2025 |
| Like a favorite T-shirt that's showing its age |
|
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| Damaged by use or wear |
|
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| Like vintage clothing |
Universal |
11 Feb 2025 |
| ___ out, extremely fatigued |
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| --- out, extremely fatigued |
The Times Concise |
20 Jan 2025 |
| Damaged as a result of much use |
|
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| This is assumed to give notice of danger, we hear (4) |
|
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| Frayed |
Newsday |
25 Dec 2024 |
| Displayed the choice of women's skirts |
|
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| Donned, is old-looking (4) |
|
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| Well-used, and it shows |
|
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| Warne sounds exhausted (4) |
|
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| Bald (tyre) (4) |
|
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| Assumed to be frayed? (4) |
|
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| Ready for the rummage pile |
|
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| Hackneyed description of what is assumed (4) |
|
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| Tired, as non-Britpop fans might be of hearing about 5 Across |
The Telegraph Mini |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Frayed, perhaps, but still in use (4) |
|
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| Lacking tread, as a tire |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Jul 2024 |
| Over-used, as a cloth |
|
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| Spent beat |
|
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| Threadbare argument upheld point |
|
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| Damaged by use or rubbing (4) |
|
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| Needing patching |
Newsday |
06 Jun 2024 |
| Very tired, slow or nervous in part (4) |
|
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| Overused, like old shoes or a favorite shirt might be |
|
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| Showing use |
|
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| Used by a non-commissioned officer (naval) (4) |
|
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| Like bald tires |
USA Today |
31 Jan 2024 |
| Tattered, say |
|
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| Haggard |
|
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| Showing the effects of much use |
|
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| Tattered, as a shirt |
|
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| Threadbare or haggard |
Puzzler Backwords |
23 Dec 2023 |
| __ out; exhausted |
Commuter |
05 Dec 2023 |
| Assumed choice of directions |
|
|
| Tattered |
USA Today |
16 Nov 2023 |
| ___ out jeans (old) |
|
|
| Like bald tires |
LA Times Daily |
30 Aug 2023 |
| Shabby, but put on |
The Guardian Cryptic |
03 Jul 2023 |
| Needing a pants patch |
Newsday |
22 May 2023 |
| Threadbare |
LA Times Daily |
15 May 2023 |
| Exhausted, with "out" (rhymes with "born") |
|
|
| Frayed or tattered |
|
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| Frayed and tired |
|
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| Exhausted, with "out" |
|
|
| Frayed |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Nov 2022 |
| Shabby |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Oct 2022 |
| ___ out (tired) |
|
|
| Shabby |
|
|
| Shabby |
LA Times Daily |
12 May 2022 |
| Showing signs of use |
The Guardian Quick |
29 Mar 2022 |
| Threadbare; tired |
The Times Concise |
17 Jan 2022 |
| Frayed |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Nov 2021 |
| Frayed or tattered |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| Frayed |
LA Times Daily |
10 Oct 2021 |
| Needing patching |
Newsday |
22 Sep 2021 |
| Tired |
New York Times |
21 Aug 2021 |
| Like the clothes you previously had on |
Family Time |
25 Jul 2021 |
| Showing signs of age |
|
|
| Showing signs of age |
LA Times Daily |
24 Jul 2021 |
| Carried on one's service, without getting ahead |
|
|
| Weathered, say |
New York Times |
18 Jun 2021 |
| Frayed and tired |
|
|
| Frayed |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Jan 2021 |
| Frayed so? |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2021 |
| Threadbare |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Dec 2020 |
| Threadbare |
New York Times |
23 Nov 2020 |
| Shabby Republican cuts present up |
|
|
| Starting to fray |
Newsday |
17 May 2020 |
| Showing signs of use |
Wall Street Journal |
07 May 2020 |
| __-out: exhausted |
LA Times Daily |
23 Mar 2020 |
| __-out: exhausted |
|
|
| In need of patching |
|
|
| In need of patching |
LA Times Daily |
03 Mar 2020 |
| Like clothing that needs to be replaced |
Family Time |
02 Mar 2020 |
| Well-used |
|
|
| Well-used |
LA Times Daily |
21 Feb 2020 |
| Threadbare |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Feb 2020 |
| Dog-eared |
Newsday |
29 Dec 2019 |
| Frayed |
Newsday |
22 Dec 2019 |
| Like old tires |
|
|
| Frayed |
Premier Sunday |
10 Nov 2019 |
| ___ out (tired) |
|
|
| Frayed |
LA Times Daily |
11 Aug 2019 |
| Frayed |
|
|
| Needing a patch |
USA Today |
30 Jul 2019 |
| __ out (needing to be replaced) |
Newsday |
10 Jun 2019 |
| Damaged as a result of much use |
|
|
| Frayed, as clothing |
New York Times |
27 May 2019 |
| Exhausted |
|
|
| Showing signs of use |
USA Today |
02 May 2019 |
| Exhausted |
|
|
| Showing signs of use |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| Frayed, as clothing |
|
|
| Needing a patch |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Visibly well-used, like an old pair of shoes |
|
|
| Unlike new clothes |
LA Times Daily |
18 Jun 2018 |
| Unlike new clothes |
|
|
| Slightly tattered |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Threadbare |
LA Times Daily |
11 Apr 2018 |
| Showing signs of overuse |
|
|
| Threadbare |
Premier Sunday |
25 Feb 2018 |
| Unlike new clothes |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Tattered |
New York Times |
19 Dec 2017 |
| Frayed |
Family Time |
06 Aug 2017 |
| ___ out jeans (old) |
|
|
| Tattered |
|
|
| Frayed |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Dec 2016 |
| Bald, as tires |
Universal |
20 Oct 2016 |
| No longer new, as clothing |
Universal |
12 Oct 2016 |
| Corroded |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2016 |
| Past its prime |
LA Times Daily |
17 Mar 2016 |
| Showing signs of age |
New York Times |
21 Feb 2016 |
| In need of patching |
USA Today |
18 Oct 2015 |
| Shabby |
Newsday |
05 Jun 2015 |
| Tattered |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Weather-beaten |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| In need of patching |
|
|
| Sported |
|
|
| Weathered |
|
|
| Shabby |
|
|
| Hardly new-looking |
|
|
| Hardly new-looking |
|
|
| In need of a patch |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Put on alert by the sound of it … |
|
|
| Tattered |
|
|
| Hardly new-looking |
|
|
| Showing signs of use |
|
|
| Like secondhand clothing |
|
|
| Tattered |
|
|
| No longer mint |
|
|
| Showing overuse |
|
|
| Showing signs of use |
|
|
| Slightly tattered |
|
|
| Starting to come apart |
|
|
| No longer mint |
|
|
| Needing patching |
|
|
| Frazzled |
|
|
| Old-looking |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| Like bald tires |
|
|
| A bit beat-up |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Bald, as tires |
|
|
| Frayed, say |
|
|
| Frazzled |
|
|
| Dog-eared |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| Spent |
|
|
| Dog-eared |
|
|
| Tattered |
|
|
| Needing a patch |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Eroded |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| Shabby from use |
|
|
| Hardly new-looking |
|
|
| Sported |
|
|
| Tuckered (out) |
|
|
| Showing the effects of overwork |
|
|
| Haggard |
|
|
| Dog-eared |
|
|
| Had on |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| In need of patching, e.g. |
|
|
| Shabby |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| Dog-eared |
|
|
| Weathered |
|
|
| In need of rotation, possibly |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Secondhand |
|
|
| Ready for patching |
|
|
| Dog-eared |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Slightly tattered |
|
|
| Needing a patch |
|
|
| With 70-Across, tired |
|
|
| Threadbare |
|
|
| Needing patches |
|
|
| Needing a patch |
|
|
| Put on |
|
|
| Needing patches |
|
|
| Fatigued |
|
|
| Hackneyed |
|
|
| Haggard |
|
|
| Sported |
|
|
| Beat-up |
|
|
| Spent |
|
|
| Needing patches |
|
|
| Hackneyed |
|
|
| In need of patching |
|
|
| Overworked |
|
|
| Frayed |
|
|
| Secondhand |
|
|
| Damaged by use |
|
|
| Overworked |
|
|
| Fatigued, with "out" |
|
|
| Used |
|
|
| Used |
|
|
| Secondhand |
|
|
| No longer new |
|
|
| Exhausted |
|
|
| Eroded |
|
|
| ___ out (exhausted) |
|
|
| Exhausted |
|
|
| Like old tires |
|
|
| Shabby |
|
|
| Spent |
|
|
| The worse for wear. |
|
|
| On the person, as a garment. |
|
|
| Spent. |
|
|
| Shabby. |
|
|
| Secondhand. |
|
|
| Exhausted. |
|
|
| Beat-up |
|
|
| Impaired by use. |
|
|
| Shop-___. |
|
|
| Threadbare. |
|
|
| Hackneyed. |
|
|
| Second-hand. |
|
|
| Wearied or exhausted. |
|
|
| Fatigued. |
|
|