| CAMPAIGN | Frequently clap MEP, making an effort to secure votes |
| POLITICKED | Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes? (10) |
| PERFORMANCE | Recital from France, or MEP making it (11) |
| TRADEOFF | Ruin effort to secure commercial compromise (5-3) |
| TRIGGER | Provoke one making an effort to import goods (7) |
| OUTFORTHECOUNT | Making an effort to get the peer unconscious (3,3,3,5) |
| ATTEMPTING | Making an effort to achieve |
| TRYING | Making an effort to be very annoying (6) |
| ESSAYING | Making an effort to accomplish something (8) |
| GASP | Note a reptile making an effort to breathe |
| SWEETBRIER | Woman enthralled by date, one making an effort to pick up black rose |
| TERRIER | One making an effort to house Henry's oddly neglected dog (7) |
| TRIMMER | One making an effort to enthral males, becoming more svelte (7) |
| PERSEVERE | Keep making an effort to somehow preserve direction (9) |
| AGAINSTTHECLOCK | Making an effort to overcome shortage of time while going backwards (7,3,5) |
| SHADOWBOXING | Avoiding decisive action, opposition giving ground to secure vote, elected (6-6) |
| EXTEMPORE | Without preparation, mere poet fails to secure vote |
| NEXT | Goal to secure vote succeeding |
| EXTRINSIC | Superficial Republican incites animatedly to secure vote (9) |
| HOIPOLLOI | He's first - I say! I say! - to secure vote for the common people (3,6) |
