| BACKWATER | Place regarded as dull and nothing important happening (9) |
| NERD | A person regarded as dull and ineffective |
| DISHWATER | Would Spooner wish daughter to be as dull as this? (9) |
| BLEMISHES | “Photography [...] records / Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds, / And will not censor ____” (Philip Larkin) |
| BLEAK | It is as dull and cheerless as a house in fiction (5) |
| BOVINE | Bishop describes members of flock, perhaps, as dull and slow-moving? |
| EVENT | Most important happening (4,5) |
| MAIN | Most important happening (4,5) |
| BIGDEAL | Quite the important happening: 2 wds. |
| BLAH | Elevated part of the Taj Mahal building is as dull as dishwater (4) |
| DITCHWATER | What something may be as dull as |
| THICKASTHIEVES | Close friends become as dull as partners in crime (5,2,7) |
| TITTLETATTLES | Gossips, talks about nothing important (6-7) |
| NATTER | Talk socially about nothing important (6) |
| AMERE | Nothing important seen on circling lake with gun (1,4,6) |
| BABBLE | Talk nonstop about nothing important |
| AMERETRIFLE | Nothing important * (1,4,6) |
| TRIFLE | Nothing important seen on circling lake with gun (1,4,6) |
| ADO | Agitation over nothing important |
| HOHUM | 16 attends woman insulted as dull (2-3) |
