- CORNY
- Like many an old joke
- Like some unoriginal jokes
- Tiresomely unsubtle
- Cliché-ridden
- Unsophisticated
- Trite and mawkish
- Trite, joke-wise
- Too earnest and old-school
- Mawkishly sentimental
- Predictable, as humor goes
- Lacking subtlety
- Like a trite joke
- Lacking in subtlety
- Like Kansas in August
- Hardly sophisticated
- Trite
- Like a stale joke
- Groan-inducing, maybe
- Lame, as a joke
- Hardly scintillating
- Like most "Hee Haw" jokes
- Like some awful jokes
- Like some bad jokes
- Like some groaners
- Clichéd
- Groanworthy, as a joke
- Like grandpa's jokes, probably
- Like many bar jokes
- Like dad jokes
- Like some humor
- Like some old jokes
- Hackneyed
- Not very innovative
- Hokey
- Banal
- Far from side-splitting
- Trite, as a joke
- Old-fashioned, as humor
- Unfunny due to 64 Down
- Trite, as jokes
- Like the joke about the Iowa farmer?
- Outworn, trite: Colloq.
- Old-fashioned: Slang.
- Trite: Slang.
- Banal: Slang.
- Sentimental: Slang.
- Tiresomely trite.
- Trite with age: Slang.
- Trite and tiresome.
- Hackneyed: Slang.
- Not hip.
- Certainly not camp.
- Unsophisticated: Slang.
- Banal: Colloq.
- Like some oaters
- Trite: Colloq.
- Trite: Informal.
- Full of clichés
- Word for some jokes
- Like some jokes
- Like this puzzle?
- Like many a joke
- Square
- Mawkish
- Like "Hee Haw" humor
- Vaudevillian, in a way
- Groan-inducing, perhaps
- Unsophisticated, as humor
- Not subtle, as humor
- Like groaners
- Like groaner humor
- Like Kansas?
- Hokey, as a joke
- Like some sorry jokes
- Like a Kansan's trite joke?
- Joke style
- Old-fashioned informally
- Jokes, sometimes
- Like terrible puns
- Like an awful 43-Across
- Like an eyeroll-inducing joke
- See 35-Down
- Like many puns
- Like many vaudeville comics
- Like many dad jokes
