| 100% | TGIF | 4 | Comment by the work-weary |
| 58% | LUCA | 4 | 2021 Pixar film influenced by the work of Fellini |
| 57% | ASIDE | 5 | "Oh, by the way" comment |
| 56% | BROW | 4 | By the sweat of your __; with hard work |
| 56% | SPOCK | 5 | Role referred to by the comment |
| 55% | SNOWED | 6 | __ under, overwhelmed by the amount of work |
| 53% | AVANTGARDE | 10 | Like the work spelled out by the circled letters |
| 52% | UNDER | 5 | "Down ___" (1980s hit by the Australian band Men at Work) |
| 52% | ALGIERS | 7 | The Women of __, works by Picasso and Delacroix |
| 51% | PYREX | 5 | Oven-safe product introduced by the Corning Glass Works in 1915 |
| 51% | ADORATION | 9 | The __ of the Magi, unfinished work by da Vinci |
| 51% | AIDA | 4 | Work commissioned by the khedive of Egypt |
| 50% | TREADLE | 7 | Lever worked by the foot |
| 50% | ARPS | 4 | Some Guggenheim works by Jean, the dadaist sculptor |
| 49% | EPIGRAMS | 8 | Classic works by the poet Martial |
| 49% | EROICA | 6 | Work considered by some to be the first Romantic-era symphony |
| 48% | FORGERY | 7 | Apt word spelled by the new letters that alter this puzzle's seven works |
| 48% | FYIS | 4 | “By the way” comments |
| 48% | ATHOS | 5 | One of the Three Musketeers in works by Alexandre Dumas |
| 47% | VALLEY | 6 | "The Mystery of the Sasassa ___," first published work by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 47% | SILMARILLION | 12 | The —, collection of works by J R R Tolkien published posthumously in 1977 |
| 47% | OPERATIC | 8 | In the style of a work by Bizet, such as Carmen |
| 47% | THREEPENNY | 10 | & 14A The —, 1928 musical work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill |
| 47% | LURCH | 5 | Manservant to The Addams Family in works by cartoonist Charles Addams |
| 46% | MURAL | 5 | Many a work by the artist Banksy |
| 46% | ARMORYSHOW | 10 | Event at which the work spelled out by the circled letters was first exhibited in America |
| 46% | ABS | 3 | Core muscles worked by the plank exercise |
| 46% | MANET | 5 | Painter referenced by the Mickalene Thomas work "Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires" |