| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| EXERT | Make efforts | |
| STRIVE | Make efforts | |
| STRAIN | To make violent efforts. | |
| REACH | To strain after something; to make efforts. | |
| STRUGGLE | To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. | |
| MAKE | To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit... | |