| 100% | BERN | 4 | City in which Einstein worked in a patent office |
| 51% | BERNE | 5 | Where Einstein worked as a patent examiner while he figured out relativity in his spare time |
| 49% | CLERKED | 7 | Worked in a law office |
| 48% | RELATIVITY | 10 | Pretty heavy topic for a guy working in the Bern Patent Office |
| 46% | CLERKED | 7 | Worked in a judge's office |
| 43% | STAPLER | 7 | One working in a corner in an office? |
| 43% | REMOTELY | 8 | Working from a distance, not in the office |
| 43% | GENEVA | 6 | Popular city in Switzerland that has a UN office |
| 43% | BERN | 4 | City where Einstein was a patent examiner |
| 42% | COWORKER | 8 | A colleague at the office you work in |
| 41% | HABANERO | 8 | Pepper named for a city in which it was widely traded |
| 41% | RENO | 4 | A gambling city in Nevada, which is near Tahoe |
| 41% | LAGUNA | 6 | ___ Beach, resort city in California which is also a reality TV show |
| 41% | ERIE | 4 | City in Pennsylvania which shares its name with a lake |
| 40% | SIENA | 5 | Walled city in Tuscany, Italy, which houses a 13th-century university |
| 40% | PALENCIA | 8 | City in Castile and Leon, NW Spain, which houses a Gothic cathedral |
| 40% | TEMP | 4 | Person who works in an office for a short time |
| 39% | OSLO | 4 | Character from "Money Heist" which is also a city in Norway |
| 39% | WAGTHEDOG | 9 | 1997 film in which Dustin Hoffman plays a producer working on a fake war: 3 wds. |
| 39% | AMSTERDAM | 9 | A city in Missouri, which shares its name with the capital of the Netherlands |
| 38% | BLACKSWAN | 9 | Dance drama in which Mila Kunis plays a ballerina working on Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake": 2 wds. |
| 38% | STPETERSBURG | 12 | A city in Florida, which shares its name with a large European city: 2 wds. |
| 38% | OED | 3 | Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry |
| 38% | FAERIES | 7 | Creatures of which Gloriana is the “Queene,” in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| 38% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 38% | THEVOICE | 8 | American reality show hosted by Carson Daly, which works in a format similar to 21-Across: 2 wds. |
| 37% | DIRTYDANCING | 12 | 1987 drama film in which Patrick Swayze works at a resort in Catskills: 2 wds. |
| 37% | TEAM | 4 | *Group on a sports field ... being in which helps people learn how to work together |
| 37% | HOED | 4 | Worked in a garden |
| 37% | OARED | 5 | Worked in a galley |