The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BORING
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BORING
- Bear eating nothing bland
- Use of a drill is / unexciting
- Making holes is not interesting
- The first of rooks in spring sound flat
- Dull old boy turning up to join clique
- Bear hugging love, uninspired
- Dull king captivated by sound of spring
- Pigs’ group said to lack interest
- Closure of zoo interrupting bear’s routine
- Commonplace sound of spring around river
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What does BORING mean?
BORING verb- To inspire boredom in somebody.
- To make a hole through something.
- To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
- To fool; to trick.
- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- Any organism that bores into a hard surface
- Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold the interest.
- Used, or designed to be used, to drill holes.
- Capable of penetrating; piercing.