| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| DOORDIE | Like a desperation effort |
| LASTGASP | Like a desperate effort |
| DOORDIE | Like a desperate effort |
| antistory | narrative of short-story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignores structural conventions, character motivations, and the like |
| EXERTED | Like effort and influence |
| inertial | inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness |
| inertias | inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness |
| inertia | inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness |
