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- L.A. Times Daily - Apr 8 2025
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,963 - Jul 6 2021
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 549 - Apr 29 2019
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,177 - Dec 29 2018
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 7721
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 28,727 - May 1 2018
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 7633
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 14,839 - Nov 28 2017
- L.A. Times Daily - Feb 5 2016
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 636
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- *Completely in vain
- Modish and conceited, but quite useless
- To no end
- Where nurse's needle goes, might you say? It's useless
- Popular humour by the sound of it with no purpose
- Pub around five -- excellent or ineffective?
- Fruitlessly drugs may circulate here, we hear
- Fruitlessly, to no avail
- Unsuccessfully leading army maybe around island
- __ avail (fruitless)
- -- avail (futile)
- Reportedly, where injection goes will be making no difference
- Up-good connection
- Conceitedly, it's a vinyl reproduction
- __ avail (hopeless)