Possible Clues:

• Finally, Moate sounds desperate to achieve it
• Desperate to survive, died before long
• Where to make a final stand in trench warfare?
• Desperate to get 21 down? Ha-ha!
• MacNeice's final obstacle?
• Done with desperation
• Desperate final obstacle for jockey?
• Achieved at the eleventh hour
• Desperate for telephone system, one held by fastening