| 100% | BIGDIG | 6 | Boston public-works project that severely overran its deadline |
| 38% | DAM | 3 | Public works project |
| 33% | TVA | 3 | Pre-W.W. II public works project, for short |
| 30% | ONBUDGET | 8 | Like a project that isn’t exceeding its planned cost |
| 29% | BIGDIG | 6 | Boston project that created the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway |
| 29% | BUNKERHILL | 10 | Boston site that lent its name to a 1775 battle |
| 28% | INNOCENCE | 9 | ___ Project (nonprofit that works on behalf of the wrongly convicted) |
| 28% | YARNBOMBING | 11 | Street art that covers public fixtures with knitted works |
| 28% | DOCTORS | 7 | Gorilla ___, organization that works on mountain gorilla veterinary projects |
| 28% | ESSAY | 5 | Literary work that sounds like two of its letters |
| 28% | OED | 3 | Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project |
| 28% | TDBANK | 6 | Financial institution that lends its name to a Boston arena |
| 28% | OED | 3 | Ref. work that added "Dylanesque" to its lexicon in 2018 |
| 28% | CIAWORLDFACTBOOK | 16 | Reference work in the public domain that's updated weekly |
| 28% | SUNDIAL | 7 | Timekeeping device that doesn't work when it's cloudy |
| 27% | AHA | 3 | "So that's how it works!" |
| 27% | OAR | 3 | Item that works best when it's half in the water |
| 26% | ISHE | 4 | "Who ___ kidding?" ("Does that guy really think it's working?") (2 wds.) |
| 26% | ISEE | 4 | "So that's how it works!" (2 wds.) |
| 26% | ERNANI | 6 | Verdi work that was the first opera to be recorded in its entirety |
| 26% | SLEEP | 5 | Something that crossword constructors working to deadlines are often in dire need of |
| 26% | TYRE | 4 | Car part that needs air to work (how it's spelled in Britain) |
| 26% | ATM | 3 | Device that doesn't work well until you stick a PIN in it |
| 26% | SEETO | 5 | "I'll ___ it that you never work in this town again!": 2 wds. |
| 25% | DDE | 3 | Pres. who signed the Fed. Aid Highway Act, the largest - at $25 billion - public works project in US history at the time (abbr.) |
| 25% | STICKYFINGERS | 13 | 1971 Rolling Stones album that has a working zipper on its cover: 2 wds. |
| 25% | TVA | 3 | Public works inits. |
| 25% | ARTEXHIBIT | 10 | Public works program? |
| 25% | SARGENT | 7 | Boston Public Library muralist |
| 24% | IRS | 3 | Org. that recently extended its deadline by three months but still has demands for returns |