| STRIKEHOME | To achieve the intended effect, refuse to work in the house (6,4) |
| HITHOME | Achieve the intended effect (3,4) |
| PARLIAMENT | Actor's portrayal includes menial work in the house (10) |
| PIANOTUNER | Sound professional doing key work in the home occasionally? |
| STRIKINGHOME | Stopping work at the house having the intended effect (8,4) |
| DOTHETRICK | Achieve the required result (2,3,5) |
| WHISTLE | ___ in the wind, to make a futile attempt to achieve the impossible (7) |
| FALLFLAT | Phrase meaning 'to fail to produce the intended effect' (4,4) |
| STRIKE | Refuse to work in the buffet (6) |
| ASHBARTY | First Australian woman to achieve No. 1 ranking in tennis: Evonne Goolagong Cawley; second Australian to achieve the No. 1 ranking: ? (3,5) |
| ADJUST | To alter slightly in order to achieve the desired fit (6) |
| BACKFIRE | Have the opposite of the intended effect (8) |
| SEWAGE | Refuse to work in needlework period (6) |
| DOTHEBUSINESS | I enthused boss in order to achieve the required result (2,3,8) |
| FALLSFLAT | Fails to achieve the desired effect (5,4) |
| MOST | Tom's out to achieve the maximum with the least effort (4) |
| ORCHESTRATE | At a Rochester gettogether, they organise to achieve the best effect (11) |
| BEST | Bets are laid out in order to achieve the finest result |
| HAYES | Helen who was the first actress to achieve the EGOT |
| USHERS | They work in the house with that girl in old city on Sunday (6) |
