Fusty
The crossword clue "Fusty" is answered by STALE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1991; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STALE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STALE answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1991; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for STALE
Every other clue in this collection answered by STALE, most used first.
- No longer fresh - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
- Hackneyed - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
- Trite - used 53 times, most recently in 2023
- Old hat - used 46 times, most recently in 2023
- Like old bread - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Not fresh - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Flat - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
- Vapid - used 20 times, most recently in 2004
- Like week-old bread - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- No longer edible - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Tired - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Overused - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Passe - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
- Far from fresh - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- No longer fresh, as bread - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- No longer novel - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Old - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Musty - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Past its prime - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Played out - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Cliché-ridden - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Not fresh, as bread - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Shopworn - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Banal - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Commonplace. - used 8 times, most recently in 1982
- Hardly original - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Like an old joke - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Like some jokes - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Overfamiliar - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Tasteless. - used 7 times, most recently in 1985
- Like an old bagel - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Opposite of fresh - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Timeworn - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Take care of - SEETO, used 337 times
- Cubic meter - STERE, used 273 times
- Frighten - SCARE, used 195 times
- Trap - SNARE, used 192 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Place - STEAD, used 187 times
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