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Vain Hope Crossword Clue

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noun

• a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

31%11 Subject of the acclaimed biography 'Hope Against Hope'
noun

• Russian poet who died in a prison camp (1891-1938)

30%4 __ dream (vain hope)
noun

• a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

• a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

• a hollow cylindrical shape

• a tubular wind instrument

• the flues and stops on a pipe organ

verb

• utter a shrill cry

• transport by pipeline

• play on a pipe

• trim with piping

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__ dream (vain hope)
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