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

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

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Across

1. TRADEMARK: "used for a short stick that has pieces of soft cotton at both ends"

5. Key for Pachelbel's "Canon," briefly

9. Watch brand

14. 'That's awful!'

15. NOUN: "any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam"

16. Two-___ (fast break matchup, often)

17. 'You ___ thing!'

18. "What's going ___..." ("Let me get you up to speed")

19. At some point in the future

20. NOUN: "a member of a culture in which food is obtained by [killing game], fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry"

23. Nest egg fund

24. Freddy of soccer fame

25. ADJECTIVE: "dealing in or suggestive of melodramatic intrigue...usually involving secret agents [as well as] espionage"

33. "New Slang" band, with "The"

34. Occupy, as a tanning bed

35. Fire

36. Pen tips

37. Sent over, as a document

38. Coin ___ (50-50 shot)

39. NOUN: "a shout of approval "

40. Mr. Fudd

41. Spoken exams

45. Aussie jumper

46. "Interesting," when texting

47. NOUN PHRASE: "someone or something that moves in a way that is very graceful or beautiful"

55. NOUN: "a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated"

56. Part of UAE

57. PREPOSITION: "until"

58. Elba in "Heads of State"

59. "And ___ minute too soon!"

60. VERB: "to determine or assign the relative rank or class of"

61. Cover a canvas, say

62. NOUN: "a bond of union; especially: the marriage bond"

63. Immigrant's class, sometimes

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1. Hebrew letter useful in Scrabble

2. NOUN: "[1,000] of something (such as dollars)"

3. Part of, as a plot

4. Servings of food

5. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Antonín 1841–1904 Bohemian composer"

6. NOUN: "a Chinese dynasty dated 1368–1644 and marked by restoration of earlier traditions and in the arts by perfection of established techniques"

7. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "continent of the eastern hemisphere north of the equator"

8. NOUN: "a joking or mocking remark"

9. Native of a Spanish city

10. Snug bug's place

11. Tiniest speck

12. Cabinet department (abbr.)

13. COMBINING FORM: "dry"

21. Taylor Swift mega-tour

22. Gigi or Bella

25. Texas dish

26. NOUN: "defamation of a person by written or representational means"

27. San Antonio draw, with "the"

28. Gives a thumbs-down to

29. John ___ (name on tractors)

30. PLURAL NOUN: "festive celebration[s]"

31. NOUN: "the state or a period of forced absence from one's country"

32. Some members of Congress, briefly

33. NOUN: "precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals"

37. Totally shock

38. NOUN: "the breaking of hard tissue (such as bone)"

40. Person who rarely thinks of others

41. Home to Buckeyes

43. Frank ___ (Leslie Nielsen's character in the "Naked Gun" movies)

44. Game that came free with the Atari 2600

47. Scientific suffix meaning "having feet"

48. "Hocus Pocus" actor Katz

49. VERB: "to pull on something with a quick vigorous movement"

50. NOUN: "any of a series of numbered golf clubs having relatively thin metal heads"

51. ABBREVIATION: "military alliance established in 1949 with the purpose of promoting the collective security of the member nations"

52. Hoppy drinks

53. Von Bismarck for whom North Dakota's capital is named

54. Christmas carol

55. Nada

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