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The Clue
Tedious (6 letter answer)
The Answer
STODGY
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Notes
The answer STODGY is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1300 puzzles.
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Definition
STODGY as an adjective:
1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
2. (fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy) = (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"
3. (stodgy, stuffy) = excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"