Related Clues:

• Go head-to-head (with)
• Contend or compete
• Struggle with advance embracing sweetheart
• Struggle with bachelor feeling rejected
• Compete with four in Germany, right away
• "C'est la ___!"
• Be a true competitor
• "La __ en Rose"
• Take part not all of whole (missing fifth)
• Take part in dog show, perhaps, but arrive without dog?
• Fight scene's cut
• Struggle with voice regularly
• Jockey very nasty, putting learner off
• French for "life"
• "La ___ en Rose" (Edith Piaf song)