| PUTONES | Make up accent, funny case of boring joke (3,4,4,2) |
| FACEON | Make up accent, funny case of boring joke (3,4,4,2) |
| DISTRESS | Torment, as I had picked up accent (8) |
| GADOGADO | Perform boring joke, song and dance for food in Asia |
| LUGGAGE | Toboggan packed with funny cases (7) |
| QUASAR | A hint of starlight in the middle of boring astronomical object (6) |
| DRY | PhD, at the end of the day, is kind of boring |
| SAMEYSAME | Identical to the point of boring |
| CASABLANDA | Wartime drama that's kind of boring? |
| DRILLHUMOR | Handyman's answer of "Boring" to the question "How's business?"? |
| BLANDISHLANDIS | Kind of boring "Animal House" director? |
| GREY | Last bits of boring seminar are exceptionally dull |
| TENDRILS | A number of boring bits left out? They're used by climbers (8) |
| WELLDONE | Congratulations on completion of boring job? (4,4) |
| THING | Weak end of boring article (5) |
| HOLE | The result of boring activity (4) |
| DIRGE | Terrible setting for end of boring requiem (5) |
| PROSCRIBING | Ruling out version of boring script mostly (11) |
| WORMHOLE | Evidence of boring old empty room's incomplete (8) |
| TUREEN | Country critical after return of boring routine (6) |