| 100% | DINT | 4 | By ___ of hard work |
| 77% | RICE | 4 | Crop that thrives in waterlogged fields and takes nearly 6 months of hard work by farmers before reaching our plates |
| 74% | SWEAT | 5 | Visible sign of hard work |
| 72% | SLOG | 4 | Hard stretch of work |
| 71% | REWARD | 6 | Prize at the end of hard work |
| 71% | REAP | 4 | Obtain, as a result of hard work |
| 69% | BROW | 4 | By the sweat of your __; with hard work |
| 69% | ETHIC | 5 | Hard work may be part of it |
| 67% | EARNING | 7 | Getting by hard work |
| 66% | KNOCKS | 6 | School of hard __, wisdom gained by experience |
| 66% | STRIVEN | 7 | Worked hard, anagram of inverts |
| 64% | STRIKE | 6 | Work stoppage by a body of workers |
| 64% | AIDA | 4 | Work commissioned by the khedive of Egypt |
| 63% | EARNING | 7 | Making money by working hard |
| 62% | COLLAGE | 7 | Work of art made by sticking different materials |
| 61% | SNOWED | 6 | __ under, overwhelmed by the amount of work |
| 60% | PRINTS | 6 | Works of art made by a raised surface and inking |
| 60% | GRAFTED | 7 | British slang of worked hard to get something |
| 60% | ALGIERS | 7 | The Women of __, works by Picasso and Delacroix |
| 60% | SFMOMA | 6 | Calif. home of works by Matisse and Warhol |
| 59% | ETUDE | 5 | One of 27 works by Chopin |
| 59% | WALTZ | 5 | One of 16 works by Brahms |
| 59% | OED | 3 | Work begun in 1857 by the Philological Society of London (abbr.) |
| 59% | ADORATION | 9 | The __ of the Magi, unfinished work by da Vinci |
| 59% | LUCA | 4 | 2021 Pixar film influenced by the work of Fellini |
| 58% | LIGHTGREENE | 11 | Less serious works by the author of "Brighton Rock"? |
| 58% | LEBATEAU | 8 | Title of a work by 23-Across |
| 58% | STRIKE | 6 | Work stoppage initiated by Writers Guild of America members in May 2023 |
| 57% | DANTEAN | 7 | Reminiscent of work by the 14th-century author of "Inferno" |