| 100% | AMULET | 6 | A beast of burden has time for charm |
| 52% | AMULET | 6 | A stubborn person has time for charm |
| 47% | AMULET | 6 | An animal has time for charm |
| 46% | LADEN | 5 | Like a beast of burden with its burden |
| 45% | CAMEL | 5 | Beast of burden in a desert |
| 45% | OXEN | 4 | Beasts of burden at a farm |
| 45% | OXEN | 4 | Beasts of burden on a farm |
| 45% | OXEN | 4 | Beasts of burden in a yoke |
| 45% | TAN | 3 | Color of skin that has been in the sun for a long time |
| 44% | SEASON | 6 | With 41-Across, good time for a cliffhanger ... or what each of 17-, 24-, 50- and 63-Across has? |
| 44% | OXEN | 4 | Beasts of burden who might wear a yoke |
| 44% | CLARET | 6 | Woman has time for a wine |
| 44% | MAT | 3 | Mother has time for a rug |
| 44% | MOTOR | 5 | Heath has time for a car |
| 44% | ADAGE | 5 | Nowadays have time for a proverb |
| 44% | GANNET | 6 | Note woman has time for a flyer |
| 43% | COCOBUTTERA | 11 | Informal term for the period of time when comedian O'Brien had a historically significant bottom? |
| 41% | PACKANIMAL | 10 | Beast of burden, and a hint to 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across |
| 41% | ADEVIL | 6 | Have ___ of a time |
| 41% | ACTV | 4 | Time for the closing monologue of a Shakespeare play |
| 41% | BACTRIAN | 8 | — camel, creature with two humps used as a beast of burden in deserts of central Asia |
| 40% | OLD | 3 | Having existed for a long time |
| 40% | BRIEFLY | 7 | For a short period of time |
| 40% | REIGN | 5 | Time of power for a monarch |
| 40% | ASS | 3 | Animal known as the beast of burden, with a name originating from Latin |
| 40% | BURDEN | 6 | Beast of __, common poetic term for a pack animal |
| 40% | ROOMY | 5 | Has space for a lot of things |
| 40% | OLD | 3 | Having been around for a long time |
| 40% | ERA | 3 | A period of time, Victorian, for one |
| 40% | SPOT | 4 | Have a soft ___ for (be fond of) |