| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DESPERATE | Hopeless | |
| DESPAIRFUL | Hopeless. | |
| IMPOSSIBLE | Hopeless (situation) | |
| LOSTCAUSE | Hopeless situation | |
| DOOM | Hopeless state | |
| NONSTARTER | Hopeless proposal | |
| FORGONE | Abandoned; hopeless | |
| FORLORN | Abandoned; hopeless | |
| INDESPAIR | Indies pear sounds hopeless! | |
| ABJECT | Utterly wretched or hopeless | |
| SKILLETS | Pans hopeless skill set | |
| DEAD END | Cul-de-sac has a hopeless future | |
| DEADEND | Cul-de-sac has a hopeless future | |
| DESPAIRING | Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. | |
| IRRELIEVABLE | Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless. | |
| USELESS | Don’t consume as much ... it’s hopeless! | |
| DEPLORE | To regard as hopeless; to give up. | |
| PERDUE | Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. | |
| HOPELESS | Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. | |
| DESPERATION | A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. | |
| CORNER | To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument. | |
| DESPAIR | To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. | |
| RANSOM | The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. | |