Hackneyed
The crossword clue "Hackneyed" is answered by BANAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 75 times across 45 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
BANAL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BANAL answer page.
Used 75 times across 45 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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- CORNY (5 uses in xd)
Other clues for BANAL
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- Trite - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Commonplace - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Insipid - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
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