| NOWIN | Endlessly snowing? It's futile, like a hopeless situation (2-3) |
| BLEAK | Like a hopeless situation |
| USELESS | Economise on resources? It's futile (7) |
| SISYPHEAN | Futile, like endlessly rolling a boulder uphill (9) |
| POINTLESS | Futile, like the losing football team |
| NOUSE | One may have common sense, at the end, but it's futile (2,3) |
| LYING | Snowing |
| ONAHIDING | Ann, too upset, going round concealing love object in a hopeless situation (2,1,6,2,7) |
| DEADEND | Anaesthetise 500 Romans in a hopeless situation (4,3) |
| HIDING | On a _ to nothing, in a hopeless situation (6) |
| LOSTCAUSE | A hopeless situation left a Scot changing treatment (4,5) |
| INEPT | It's futile to be at home with pet of a sort (5) |
| CHARCUTERIE | Blair maintains Conservative leader in a hopeless situation where cuts promised (11) |
| STRAND | Bring into or leave in a hopeless situation. (6) |
| EMPTY | It's futile to remove the contents (5) |
| IDAHO | Plaid a 'hopeless case' for part of the Northwest |
| GONER | New dynamo's housing is a hopeless case |
| TORAH | Victor a hopeless student in some body of Jewish teaching (5) |
| BITTE | *Person who persists in a hopeless cause |
| ANOWIN | Hopeless situation (1,2-3) |
