| DOTHETRICK | Achieve the required result (2,3,5) |
| DOTHEBUSINESS | I enthused boss in order to achieve the required result (2,3,8) |
| PASS | Achieve the required mark in a test or exam (4) |
| STRIKEHOME | Irksome, the bending to achieve the desired effect (6,4) |
| NEARENOUGH | Within the required distance, more or less |
| QUALIFYING | Having the required skills for winning preliminary contest (10) |
| SUFFICIENT | Fresh cuts in Fife are at the required level (10) |
| NONONSENSE | Ernest, we hear, shows the required approach to any serious problem. (2,8) |
| FAIRENOUGH | Having the required degree of beauty, all right (4,6) |
| THEGOODS | Required result: nothing wanted in the highest seats (3,5) |
| DOESTHETRICK | Achieves a required result (4,3,5) |
| EFFICACY | Ability to produce required result (8) |
| LIKEMAGIC | How conjurer will achieve the desired result (4,5) |
| TRIM | Achieve the correct balance with the ornamentation (4) |
| DOTHEJOB | To achieve the desired result |
| SUCCEED | Achieve the desired aim or result (7) |
| MOST | Tom's out to achieve the maximum with the least effort (4) |
| ASHBARTY | First Australian woman to achieve No. 1 ranking in tennis: Evonne Goolagong Cawley; second Australian to achieve the No. 1 ranking: ? (3,5) |
| BEST | Bets are laid out in order to achieve the finest result |
| WHISTLE | ___ in the wind, to make a futile attempt to achieve the impossible (7) |