Related Clues:

• A hopeless undertaking or effort
• Hopeless effort or undertaking
• Locates us in failed or doomed endeavour
• The sound of the sound of the crow that's lost its way is all in vain
• Cries of distress from the crow who could not find its way home?
• The sound of the useless cries of a rook trying to find its way home?
• 'The sound of a crow that can't get home is hopeless (4,5)'
• Unsuccessful kind of situation currently at one's office
• One can find a home in Oxford
• Hopeless endeavour
• Lose-lose
• Parasite consuming castaway — it's on a road to nowhere
• Certain to end in failure
• Just arrived, like a hopeless situation?
• Unsalvageable