| SERPENTINEVERSE | Writer put minimum of effort into transposed line that ends as it started |
| TENNIS | It begins with love and ends (as it began) in court (6) |
| KICKEDOFF | Dismissed as soon as it started (6,3) |
| RANKED | Assigned a class in Ark, end as it may (6) |
| ENSUED | Sue was caught in the end, as it happened (6) |
| CONSOLIDATE | Cool end as it moves to become solid |
| GIVEITSOMEWELLY | Put a lot of effort into it and go with the pedal to the metal (4,2,4,5) |
| STRAIN | Put a lot of effort into a way to get wet weather (6) |
| TRYHARDS | Those who put a lot of effort into social climbing, in modern lingo |
| LIFETABLE | That can be raised with minimum of effort in set of stats |
| ETTU | Start of a Shakespeare line that ends "Then fall, Caesar" |
| DENTALHYGIENE | Treatment of teeth: repositioned in head gently, with minimum of effort |
| QUOTATIONMARK | Tender line that ends someone's speech? (9,4) |
| SONNET | Verse of 14 lines that ends with a couplet (6) |
| ERMINE | Carnivore taking head off rats etc with minimum of effort (6) |
| PAINTER | Who might produce a print with minimum of effort? (7) |
| BULLDOZE | Destroy dull characters in Dickens with minimum of effort |
| EASYCARE | Acre, say, ploughed with minimum of effort - no pressing needed? |
| SOOTHE | Calm host possibly holds round with minimum of effort (6) |
| PERFUNCTORY | Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection |
