| 100% | EARN | 4 | Acquire "the old-fashioned way" |
| 100% | EARN | 4 | Acquire "the old fashioned way" |
| 74% | HANDWASH | 8 | Launder the old-fashioned way |
| 74% | HANDRUB | 7 | Polish the old-fashioned way |
| 74% | HANDDYE | 7 | Color the old-fashioned way |
| 71% | CHURN | 5 | Make butter the old-fashioned way |
| 71% | BLEST | 5 | Given benediction, the old-fashioned way |
| 71% | HOE | 3 | Whack weeds the old-fashioned way |
| 71% | EARN | 4 | Make money the old-fashioned way |
| 70% | CHATEAULAFEET | 13 | French wine made the old-fashioned way? |
| 69% | SNAILMAILS | 10 | Sends the old-fashioned way, as a letter |
| 68% | PASTEONATRUESTORY | 17 | Lay out some newspaper copy the old-fashioned way? |
| 65% | DOWDY | 5 | Old-fashioned in the way one dresses |
| 65% | EARN | 4 | "They make money the old-fashioned way. They ___ it" (old ad slogan) |
| 65% | EARN | 4 | "They make money the old-fashioned way. They ___ it" (1980s ad slogan) |
| 62% | TAINT | 5 | Old fashioned way to say "It isn't" |
| 58% | MODEST | 6 | Unassuming fashion on the way |
| 58% | MODEST | 6 | Simple fashion on the way |
| 58% | EARNIT | 6 | How to make money "the old-fashioned way" |
| 57% | GRASPATSTRAWS | 13 | Old fashioned leggings are in -- try for the impossible!? |
| 56% | EARNIT | 6 | "The old-fashioned way" to make money, in an old ad |
| 54% | TIMEY | 5 | Old-___ (from way back in the day) |
| 54% | RETRO | 5 | Fashion statement from the good old days |
| 53% | AGEBIAS | 7 | What someone with disdain for the old ways might exhibit |
| 52% | EARNIT | 6 | "The old-fashioned way" to make money, per an old Smith Barney ad (2 wds.) |
| 51% | EIRE | 4 | "Sing of old ___ and the ancient ways": Yeats |
| 51% | ALAS | 4 | Old-fashioned way to express disappointment |
| 51% | FOURSCORE | 9 | Old-fashioned way of saying "eighty" |
| 51% | NAY | 3 | Old-fashioned way of saying "no" |
| 51% | STAPLES | 7 | Old-fashioned way to attach documents |