100% | JOB | 3 | "Take This ___ and Shove It" (1977 Johnny Paycheck hit) |
51% | IRESIGN | 7 | "Take this job and shove it!" |
51% | IQUIT | 5 | "Take this job and shove it!" |
50% | DAVIDALLANCOE | 13 | "Take This Job and Shove It" writer |
37% | ONELOOK | 7 | It just took this before "I fell so hard in love with you," in a 1960s hit |
35% | GRIN | 4 | Do this and bear it |
35% | COE | 3 | Country singer David Allan ___, writer of "Take This Job and Shove It" |
34% | ESS | 3 | It goes this way and that |
34% | SEESAW | 6 | It takes two to do this |
33% | RELAX | 5 | Kick back and take it easy |
33% | HARDC | 5 | It starts and ends seven answers in this puzzle |
33% | LEAPFROG | 8 | It takes two to play this jump-over game |
32% | SEXY | 4 | "___ and I Know It" (2011 hit by LMFAO) |
32% | DADOORONRON | 11 | Top 3 hit of 1963 and 1977 |
32% | OTIS | 4 | Johnny with the 1958 hit "Willie and the Hand Jive" |
32% | WERENOT | 7 | Lead-in to "kidding" and "gonna take it" |
32% | FEDUP | 5 | Angry, and not going to take it anymore |
31% | AJA | 3 | 1977 double-platinum album with the hits "Peg" and "Deacon Blues" |
31% | NINETEEN | 8 | It was on the 37-Down of Johnny Unitas and Lenny Wilkens |
30% | TIMEOFTHESEASON | 15 | 1969 #3 hit … and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
30% | MOVINGVAN | 9 | Relocation aid, and a description of its progress through this puzzle |
29% | WHATISLOVE | 10 | 1993 dance hit, and a question answered seven times in this puzzle |
29% | UNTO | 4 | "Come ___ these yellow sands, / And then take hands": Ariel in "The Tempest" |
29% | BAKERSDOZEN | 11 | It's a bit more than it sounds, and hints at this puzzle's theme |
29% | MIXEDBLESSING | 13 | It's not all good ... and it's literally found in this puzzle's circles |
29% | FLOODWATERGATE | 14 | It may wash out bridges and embankments (as in this puzzle) + Onetime White House scandal |
29% | CLEANLINESS | 11 | It's next to 10-Down, both in an adage and literally in this puzzle |
29% | MULTIPLYBYTHREE | 15 | Step Two: Take the figure you get for Step One and do this |
29% | LSAT | 4 | Some coll. seniors take it for Harvard and Yale, but not for Princeton |
29% | INDOORS | 7 | Not alfresco, and what this puzzle is vis-à-vis its border answers |