The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GREYEST
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result GREYEST
- Great having positive response for article that’s extremely dull
- Former monarch watches tons, duller than the rest
- Engineers certainly blocking sports car that’s far from exciting
- Most white, egrets flying across end of estuary
- Yet Reg’s prepared to become most gloomy
- Great! one’s gone for sure — was the oldest
- Old king looks tense and extremely pale
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The straight part
We know that "extremely dull" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case extremely dull = greyest.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GREYEST mean?
GREYEST adjective- Having a color.
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Influenced pervasively but subtly.
- Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- Of neither black nor white skin color.
- Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
- Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
- Dreary, gloomy.
- Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
- Relating to older people.