The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word WEARISOME
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More clues leading to the result WEARISOME
- Boring sport, one followed by a few
- Tiring, I saw more failing with low grade
- Tedious don is with Greek poet wasting hour
- Trying, we come to light embracing sacred mantra
- Vexatious bridge pair happen to claim honour
- Hard work initially, easier otherwise to maintain order
- A few overcome by river current, like a bore?
- Attention is absorbed by a lot of females of limited attraction?
- Tedious first person among royals is entering a capital
- Dull ladies mainly may accept a rise being out
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What does WEARISOME mean?
WEARISOME adjective- Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.