The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STALE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Like many a dad joke crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STALE | 100 % | 5 |
Why may STALE be the right solution?
The answer "STALE" is the right solution because dad jokes are often considered old-fashioned, unoriginal, and lacking in humor, similar to how stale food is not fresh or appealing.
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Crossword Answer definitions
STALE noun- Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
- (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).
- To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- (alcohol) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
- (alcohol) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
- No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.
- Fallow, in reference to land.
- Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- Taking a long time to change
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
- The posts and rungs composing a ladder.
- The stem of a plant.
- The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
- To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.
- A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
- A stalemate; a stalemated game.
- An ambush.
- A band of armed men or hunters.
- The main force of an army.
- To stalemate.
- To be stalemated.
- At a standstill; stalemated.
- (livestock) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
- (livestock) To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.
- A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
- Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
- An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
- A partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.
- A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.
- A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
- Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.
- To serve as a decoy, to lure.
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