| More passé | 13 |
| More out-of-date | 16 |
| More hard, say | 14 |
| More clichéd | 15 |
| Like yesterday's news, to today's | 41 |
| Less likely to start a trend | 28 |
| Harder to swallow, as bread | 27 |
| Harder or softer, depending | 27 |
| Flatter, as beer | 16 |
| Closer to expiration | 20 |
| Goes uneaten too long | 21 |
| Goes flat | 9 |
| Gets rock hard, as buns | 23 |
| Gets hard, as bread | 19 |
| Becomes old-hat | 15 |
| Becomes hard and dry, as bread | 30 |
| Most hackneyed | 14 |
| Most musty | 10 |
| Most tired | 10 |
| Least original | 14 |
| Superlatively ancient joke | 26 |
| Most vapid | 10 |
| Most uninteresting | 18 |
| Most clichéd | 15 |
| Like the most ancient joke | 26 |
| Least newsworthy | 16 |
| Unsurpassingly unoriginal | 25 |
| Superlatively stagnant | 22 |
| Showing the least originality | 29 |
| Passe in the extreme | 20 |
| Oldest, as jokes | 16 |
| Most unoriginal | 15 |
| Most stereotyped | 16 |
| Most outdated | 13 |
| Most old-hat | 12 |
| Most dried-out, as bread | 24 |
| Like the oldest jokes | 21 |
| Least salable, perhaps | 22 |
| Least creative | 14 |
| Least appetizing, as bread | 26 |
| Least appetizing | 16 |
| Stories you've heard a bajillion times? | 43 |
| Stories lacking originality? | 28 |
| Layne of Alice in Chains | 24 |
| Lenin's successor | 21 |
| Yalta conferee | 14 |
| Russian tyrant | 14 |
| Yalta Conference participant | 28 |
| One of the Big Three at Yalta | 29 |
| Yalta figure | 12 |
| Trotsky rival | 13 |
| Soviet monster | 14 |
| Soviet despot | 13 |
| Political leader from Georgia | 29 |
| One of the Yalta threesome | 26 |
| National leader from Georgia | 28 |
| Leader born in Georgia | 22 |
| Iosif V. Dzhugashvili | 21 |
| Former dictator | 15 |
| Dictator born in Georgia | 24 |
| Yalta figure: Feb. 1945 | 23 |
| WWII's Uncle Joe | 20 |
| World leader from Georgia | 25 |
| W.W. II's Uncle Joe | 23 |
| Soviet tyrant | 13 |
| Soviet premier Joseph | 21 |
| Soviet leader Joseph | 20 |
| Soviet leader during WWII | 25 |
| Red star? | 9 |
| Potsdam man | 11 |
| Potsdam conferee | 16 |
| Potsdam attendee | 16 |
| Political leader originally surnamed Dzhugashvili | 49 |
| One of the "Big Three" at Yalta | 41 |
| Nefarious man from Georgia | 26 |
| Leader at Yalta | 15 |
| Leader at Potsdam | 17 |
| Iosif Dzhugashvili | 18 |
| Infamous Georgian | 17 |
| Georgian revolutionary | 22 |
| Former "Pravda" editor | 32 |
| Famous Georgian born in 1879 | 28 |
| Dzhugashvili | 12 |
| Dictator from Gori | 18 |
| Confrère at Potsdam: 1945 | 28 |
| Allied leader | 13 |
| A Yalta conferee | 16 |
| 1948 Peace Prize nominee | 24 |
| Setting for "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" | 62 |
| Becoming monotonous | 19 |
| WWII battle site in southwestern Russia | 39 |
| Volgograd's former name | 27 |
| Turning point, 1943 | 19 |
| Scene of a turning point in W.W. II | 35 |
| Russian city, for a while | 25 |
| Critical 1942-43 battle site | 28 |
| City renamed in 1961 | 20 |
| Trotskyite's opponent | 25 |
| Hard-liner of old | 17 |
| Authoritarian follower | 22 |