| WARDS | Make great effort to please using blank verse a coward rewrote (4,4,9) |
| OVERBACK | Make great effort to please using blank verse a coward rewrote (4,4,9) |
| LEAN | Make great effort to please using blank verse a coward rewrote (4,4,9) |
| BENDOVERBACKWARDS | Make every effort (to please) |
| HEAVENS | Makes great effort to pick up name that's surprising! (7) |
| STRAINS | Makes great effort to fit carriages into ship (7) |
| HEAVE | Make great efforts to raise to a blissful place almost (5) |
| STRIVE | To make great efforts to achieve or obtain something (6) |
| STRAIN | Make great efforts to use a colander (6) |
| ENDS | Go to the ___ of the earth (make great effort) |
| STOPS | Make great effort, pull out all the - - - (5) |
| RHYME | From Greek meaning "to flow", word for a crambo; a couplet or other piece of assonant verse; a poem; a consonant Cockney phrase/idiom; or, any chime, jingle or tink (5) |
| TRAINS | Makes great effort, after removing top, and follows exercise regime |
| GOTOTOWN | Make a great effort to leave the country (2,2,4) |
| STRAINED | Made a great effort to give a tune notes (8) |
| EXERT | Make a great effort to halve the exercise with team leader (5) |
| SINGSONG | A ballad; a jingly verse; a monotonous or chant-like up-and-down intonation; or, a convivial gathering of friends for crooning (8) |
| IAMB | In verse, a metrical foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one (4) |
| TRIESHARD | Makes great effort (5,4) |
| DISTRAIN | I would return with great effort to seize goods of a debtor |
