| GOALBALL | Team sport devised for visually impaired athletes in 1946, originally in an effort to help the rehabilitation of injured WWII veterans (8) |
| WELFARE | Social effort to help those in need |
| BRAILLE | Embossed print for visually-impaired people (7) |
| DUNGEON | Badly done holding a French girl originally in an underground prison cell (7) |
| PUNIC | Word-play I construed originally in an ancient language |
| OATES | Which member of Scott's Antarctic team abandoned it in an effort to save the expedition? (5) |
| ROLLERDERBY | Contact sport devised in the US in the 1930s associated with Leo Seltzer and Damon Runyon (6,5) |
| SEANCE | One can see it being disturbed in an effort to talk to spirits (6) |
| JAR | Clear container that invites all to become (jelly)bean counters in an effort to win a prize |
| OTOSCOPE | An instrument for visually examining the eardrum and passage of the outer ear (8) |
| TRIER | One who puts in an effort to run in rank |
| MISSIONHILL | In an effort to contain their methane-laden burps, cows are being cordoned off to a patch of elevated land that farmers are dubbing ... |
| AVOIDANCE | Dine in Avoca while touring, in an effort to escape others? |
| TREATY | Take down in an effort to get an agreement (6) |
| RUSHINGOUT | Bursting forth in an effort to nourish the gut (7,3) |
| IMFMEMBERSTATE | Ethan Hunt's favorite participant in an effort to maintain global financial stability? |
| NORMALISATION | Animator's lion will be adjusted in an effort to make it conform with everything else |
| SPORTSWASHING | Displays dirty laundry, perhaps, though hosting competition in an effort to improve public image |
| RUBYOURNOSEINIT | Rub it around your nose in an effort to humiliate (3,4,4,2,2) |
| DISC | .... Golf. sport devised by Ed Ileadrick. the inventor of the modern Frisbee (4) |
