What is the curl of a gradient crossed with a constant vector?

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Let $a$ be any scalar and $\mathbf{B}$ be a constant vector. $\nabla \times \nabla a = 0$ and $\nabla \times \mathbf{B} = 0$. But is $\nabla \times [(\nabla a) \times \mathbf{B}]=0$?