Related Clues:

• It's hopeless
• It's not worth pursuing
• The Civil War, for the Confederacy
• There's no helping it
• Something unsuccessful, like moribund mallard
• Hopeless effort or undertaking, beyond rescue
• A hopeless undertaking or effort
• It's useless or failed, like moribund mallard
• Hopeless effort or undertaking
• Locates us in failed or doomed endeavour
• Something useless or unsuccessful, like expired mallard
• Moribund mallard as failure
• 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?