Apply Novocain, e.g., 6 letters
Make less sensitive, 6 letters
___ Kids (Gorcey's gang), 7 letters
Creek with no outlet, e.g., 7 letters
Cul-de-sac, synonym for ___ street (4,3), 7 letters
Having no future, as a job, 7 letters
Having no possibility for progress, 7 letters
Maze solver's encounter, 7 letters
Not a through street, 7 letters
Road without an out, 7 letters
Sign on one-way-out street (4,3), 7 letters
Site of many a turnaround, 7 letters
No chance to advance, 10 letters
Position where you're trying to solve an impossible maze?, 10 letters
Work that offers no chance for advancement, 10 letters
Problems for workers with ambitions, 11 letters
Gorcey, Hall, and the rest, 11 letters
Young tough guys in '30s films, 11 letters
Detectives' dilemmas, 8 letters
Detectives' frustrations, 8 letters
Investigative obstacles, 8 letters
Jobs with no potential, 8 letters
Many leads, ultimately, 8 letters
One-way-out streets (4,4), 8 letters
Streets with no outlet, 8 letters
They don't go anywhere, 8 letters
They don't go through, 8 letters
They don't lead anywhere, 8 letters
They get you nowhere, 8 letters
Become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active, 9 letters
Lessen the momentum or velocity of, 9 letters
Impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation, 9 letters
Make less lively, intense, or vigorous, 9 letters
The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine), 9 letters
Make vapid or deprive of spirit, 9 letters
Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible, 9 letters
Lose life, force, or vigor, 9 letters
Makes Eden sad and numb, 7 letters
Doornail comparative, 6 letters
Less lively, as a baseball, 6 letters
Less lively, as a party, 6 letters
More exhausted: Colloq., 6 letters
More like a doornail?, 6 letters
Ed's date very dull, 7 letters
Least bouncy, as a tennis ball, 7 letters
Least bouncy, ballwise, 7 letters
Least bustling, as a part of town, 7 letters
Annie Oakley, for one, 7 letters
Calamity Jane, e.g., 7 letters
Dick ___, 'H.M.S. Pinafore' seaman, 7 letters
Nickname for a sharpshooter, 7 letters
Shooter who seldom misses, 7 letters
1982 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 11 letters
Vonnegut title protagonist, 11 letters