| 100% | NORMARAE | 8 | Field work that was award-winning |
| 58% | TROPHIES | 8 | Items that are won or earned, e.g. cups, awards |
| 56% | DUNE | 4 | Frank Herbert work that won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel |
| 52% | TRAGICOMEDIES | 13 | Works that are up and down? |
| 51% | NEVER | 5 | "___ Be the Same," hit song by Camila Cabello that won an iHeartRadio award in 2019 |
| 49% | FRASIER | 7 | Sitcom which is the most successful spin-off series of "Cheers" that won 37 Emmy awards |
| 49% | OPUS | 4 | Work that may be numbered |
| 49% | OPUS | 4 | Work that might be ''magnum'' |
| 48% | HADESTOWN | 9 | Anaïs Mitchell work based on Orpheus and Eurydice that won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical |
| 48% | OED | 3 | 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated |
| 48% | ALIVE | 5 | "Herman Wouk Is Still ___," short story by Stephen King that won the Bram Stoker Award in 2012 |
| 48% | LINE | 4 | Florida Georgia ___, country music duo that won a Billboard Music Award for their hit song "Meant to Be" |
| 47% | DUET | 4 | Work that can't be done alone |
| 47% | PINOTNOIR | 9 | Red wine that was popularized in the Academy Award-winning film "Sideways": 2 wds. |
| 47% | STAR | 4 | "A ___ Is Born," film with the song "Shallow" that won the 2019 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song |
| 46% | LOSEYOURSELF | 12 | Arguably Eminem's greatest hit, that was written for his biopic "8 Mile," that won an Academy Award for Best Original Song: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ABS | 3 | Muscles that are worked by crunches |
| 46% | TREACHERYOFIMAGES | 17 | 1929 work that is the theme of this puzzle, with "The" |
| 46% | ERG | 3 | Unit of work that is a fraction of joule, for short |
| 46% | SIMPSONS | 8 | "The ___," animated sitcom which is a successful spin-off series of "The Tracey Ullman Show" that won 34 Emmy awards |
| 45% | GLADIATOR | 9 | Russell Crowe film that won Best Picture at the 73rd Academy Awards and was the second-highest grossing film of 2000 |
| 45% | OED | 3 | Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr. |
| 45% | MASHUP | 6 | Work that might be protected by the fair-use doctrine |
| 45% | ODE | 3 | Poetic work that might be dedicated to someone |
| 45% | UNDERDOGS | 9 | Teams that are least likely to win matches |
| 44% | FINE | 4 | ___ Work Award, Dundie award that was given to Stanley in "The Office" |
| 44% | INSATIABLE | 10 | That which won't be quenched |
| 44% | ERNANI | 6 | Verdi work that was the first opera to be recorded in its entirety |
| 44% | FRANCES | 7 | I was the former president of the NRDC and won the Rachel Carson Award in 2007 for my work as an environmentalist |
| 44% | DAMN | 4 | Kendrick Lamar's album that was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music |