| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ENERGIES | Efforts | |
| EXERT | Make efforts | |
| STRIVE | Make efforts | |
| SABOTAGE | Undermine (efforts) | |
| SABOTAGED | Undermine (efforts) | |
| JOINFORCES | Combine efforts | |
| REDOUBLING | Increasing (efforts) | |
| REDOUBLE | Increase (efforts) | |
| ASIDES | Indirect efforts | |
| ATTEMPTS | Efforts at lures | |
| STRAIN | To make violent efforts. | |
| CONCENTRATE | Devote one’s efforts to distillate | |
| SELF-TAUGHT | Taught by one's own efforts. | |
| ROGUE | Initially rascal offering generally unprincipled efforts | |
| WORTHWHILE | Sufficiently rewarding to justify one's efforts | |
| LABOR | Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. | |
| REACH | To strain after something; to make efforts. | |
| MEDIATIVE | Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. | |
| EXPECTANT | Waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment. | |
| AMELIORATIVE | Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts. | |
| SELF-CULTURE | Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts. | |
| STRUGGLE | A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress. | |
| SELF-EDUCATED | Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others. | |
| ENGAGE | To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on. | |
| STRIFE | Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. | |