| ONESLEVELBEST | Try as hard as one can, by making every effort (4,5,4) |
| LEVELBEST | Do your _, try as hard as one can (5,4) |
| CODES | Station ones can by KGX, GLQ or CDF, for example (5) |
| ASHTRAYS | Try as hard as possible to find items in some bars (8) |
| GRAFTS | Works hard, as one in the nursery does (6) |
| BEATENDOWN | Squashed hard, as one went terribly bad (6,4) |
| TRYING | Making every effort to be difficult? (6) |
| ALLOT | Making every effort, but failing to secure university grant |
| ALLOUT | Making every effort to be dismissed! (3,3) |
| TRAINING | Making every effort, son missed out in education |
| CLASSSTRUGGLE | Students make every effort to get this concept in political philosophy (5,8) |
| BENDBACKWARDS | Make every effort |
| PULLOUTALLTHE | & 26 What organist wanting to play loudly will do to make every effort (4,3,3,3,5) |
| YES | "___ We Can Can" by the Pointer Sisters |
| ANY | ___ which way you can : by one means or another? |
| ABITE | "...___ as hard as lips can make it": Keats |
| DOINGALLONECAN | Making every possible effort, cooking an entire tin (5,3,3,3) |
| SAMARITAN | Seen to embody merit - making every scheme ultimately a benevolent one (9) |
| ALLSQUARE | Even making every one the same shape (3,6) |
| BUOYANCY | Keeping up? You can by going round (8) |