Persistent lawsuit about ecstasy going before bar (9)
I believe the answer is:
ceaseless
'persistent' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'lawsuit about ecstasy going before bar' is the wordplay.
'lawsuit' becomes 'case' (a legal case).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ecstasy' becomes 'E' (informal term for the drug).
'going before' says to put letters next to each other.
'bar' becomes 'less' (both can mean 'not including').
'case' going around 'e' is 'cease'.
'cease'+'less'='CEASELESS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ceaseless that I've seen before include "Continual" , "Never-ending" , "Incessant, unremitting" , "Non-stop" , "Without end" .)