Possible Clues:

• Intending to give explanation
• Significance in a sense
• Poor international, no good as import
• It is the value of gin cocktail behind ridiculous name
• Denotation
• Objectively, I gain ground introducing new import
• Import from Chinese dynasty to include endless jeans
• Import object
• Signifying average in golf (as 1A)
• This writer in decline when wife leaves? That makes sense