Possible Clues:

• Make a hole through
• Stab
• Penetrate with sharp object
• Affect sharply
• Cut portion without right
• In a bit, you may go through the capital of Russia
• Sounds as if the patriot may have had to go through with it like this
• Penetrate, with rook being taken by knight, say
• Cut into
• Are, in short, in a bit you might make a hole in