| UNDERSTRIAN | Don't try hard enough because stressed? (5,6) |
| UNDERSTRAIN | Don't try hard enough because stressed? (5,6) |
| FUTURETENSE | Verb form that will be stressed? (6,5) |
| AMI | "___ hard enough? ___ rough enough? ___ rich enough?" ("Beast of Burden" lyrics) |
| YIELDS | Even barren ground does, if one fights it hard enough (6) |
| CRISP | Hard enough to be broken easily |
| NAIF | Greenhorn found in Argentina, if you look hard enough (4) |
| EMPHASIS | What protects politician, a jerk getting stressed? (8) |
| OURSELVES | "Time's reportedly on the side of the fairies", solvers stressed? (9) |
| ITALIC | Inclined to be stressed? |
| FRAUGHT | German lady has sports car to carry husband getting stressed? (7) |
| EXERT | Work hard enough |
| LIEDOWNONTHEJOB | Elton John bowed out, assuming I don't work hard enough (3,4,2,3,3) |
| STOKER | It's OK to rest! You work hard enough on the ship! (6) |
| IMPUNE | Come and have a go if you think you'n hard enough. in Scottish Heraldry (4,2,6,8) |
| NEMOME | Come and have a go if you think you'n hard enough. in Scottish Heraldry (4,2,6,8) |
| LACESSIT | Come and have a go if you think you'n hard enough. in Scottish Heraldry (4,2,6,8) |
| ACTNATURAL | "Don't try so hard" |
| BARE | Do the ___ minimum (don't try too hard) |
| DESCRIBE | "I don't try to _ the future. I try to prevent it." (Author Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012) (8) |
