NOUN: "a complicated...and usually fruitless pursuit or search" Crossword Clue

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NOUN: "a complicated...and usually fruitless pursuit or search" Crossword Answer

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COMPLICATED (adjective)
1. difficult to analyze or understand
FRUITLESS (adjective)
1. unproductive of success

More Missing Letter Crossword (3/30/2025) Answers

Across

1. VERB: "to strike (something, such as a ball) with an object (such as a bat, club, or racket) so as to impart or redirect motion"

4. 204, one way

8. ___ California (Mexican peninsula)

12. COMBINING FORM: "strange; foreign"

13. Bullwinkle, for one

14. "Can ___ an idea by you?"

15. Coagulated mass

16. Broadcaster

17. NOUN: "a member of a pastoral and agricultural people who inhabit a plateau region in adjoining parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, and Azerbaijan"

18. NOUN: "an artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (such as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one's actions partially determine what happens in the environment"

21. Key in the upper-left

22. NOUN: "a woman...under solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience"

23. IDIOM: "just average; not especially good"

31. Many miles from any shore

32. Let's Make ___

33. "The Tell-Tale Heart" author's inits.

35. Tried to get under the tag

36. Finally loses it

37. Spanish for "living room"

38. NOUN: "a mark, figure, design, or word intentionally fixed or placed on the skin"

39. Two-thirds of a dozen

40. Rodent in the "Ice Age" movies

44. Writing Fleming

45. Reservoir creator

46. NOUN: "a favorite or habitual resort"

54. NOUN: "one of five offspring produced in the same pregnancy"

55. NOUN: "a small egg...in an early stage of growth"

56. Cookie with many varieties

57. French for 'she'

58. Passover meal

59. NOUN: "a print periodical"

60. NOUN: "a formal combat with weapons fought between two persons in the presence of witnesses"

61. Lemon or apple, say

62. ADVERB: "to this extent or degree"

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1. Prefix with pad

2. "___ out?" (question to an indecisive cat)

3. Moved unsteadily

4. NOUN: "a series of loops"

5. Mail: Abbr

6. Understood

7. Roofed porches

8. NOUN: "a two-piece bathing suit worn by women that does not cover the midriff"

9. Stuck in __

10. NOUN: " a body of persons legally selected and sworn to inquire into any matter of fact and to give their verdict according to the evidence"

11. CONJUNCTION: "used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type"

12. Trio on the bottom row of a keyboard

13. "Uh-oh, better get ___" (TV ad line)

19. ABBREVIATION: "[official American organization for a certain racket sport]"

20. VERB: "to cause to relax vigilance"

23. Quick

24. Attorney-__

25. "Lord, ___?" (Biblical question)

26. NOUN: "a tropical usually large ovoid or oblong fruit"

27. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "state of the northwestern U.S. bordering on British Columbia, Canada"

28. Org. parts

29. ___ conclusion (about to end)

30. Extravagant parties

34. NOUN: "a spread of finely chopped or pureed seasoned meat"

36. Crossroads feature

37. Filled with people trying to network, as a party

39. NOUN: "a yellow pressed cheese of Dutch origin usually made in flattened balls and often coated with red wax"

40. Wound reminder

42. Mr. Richie

43. Landscaper’s tool

46. “Star Trek” role

47. Scrabble piece

48. Bon ___ (folk band)

49. Lacking clothing

50. NOUN: "exultant high-spirited joy"

51. Panic! At the Disco lead singer Brendon ___

52. 99 Luftballons singer

53. A female deer’

54. End-of-proof letters

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