Related Clues:

• Old, as bread
• Like old chips
• Like a beaten-to-death joke
• Hardened, maybe
• Good fellow, bitter perhaps, and tired
• Like many bad jokes
• Like last week's buns
• Like two-week-old bread
• Too mature, past its best
• Overworked
• Good fellow on the beer becoming overfamiliar
• (Of fruit, cheese, etc) past the usual stage for eating
• Past the sell-by date, say
• Like week-old bread, often
• Left by pier, bananas past sell-by date?