| 100% | BUSIER | 6 | More occupied with work |
| 72% | FREE | 4 | Not occupied with work |
| 70% | BUSY | 4 | Occupied with work |
| 70% | BUSIER | 6 | More occupied with tasks |
| 65% | BUSY | 4 | Occupied with many things |
| 56% | CPAS | 4 | They work with many schedules |
| 55% | NIGHT | 5 | With 3-Down, unpopular work hours, for many |
| 53% | OED | 3 | Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries |
| 53% | CHAKAKHAN | 9 | Musical diva worked with Rufus among many others |
| 53% | ODIC | 4 | Like many works with "To" in their titles |
| 53% | ELIA | 4 | Director Kazan who worked with many method actors |
| 53% | MARINEBIOLOGIST | 15 | Academic who works with many different schools, maybe |
| 52% | EPICNOVEL | 9 | Work of fiction with many characters and story lines: 2 wds. |
| 52% | OVERWHELMEDELMO | 15 | "Sesame Street" resident with too much work to do? |
| 52% | SCIFI | 5 | Genre of many works with "star" in the title |
| 51% | SCIFI | 5 | Genre of many works with "star" in the title (Hyph.) |
| 50% | GRANT | 5 | Cary ___, "Suspicion" actor who worked with Alfred Hitchcock more than once |
| 50% | JOAN | 4 | ___ Fontaine, "Rebecca" actress who worked with Alfred Hitchcock more than once |
| 50% | INGRID | 6 | ___ Bergman, "Spellbound" actress who worked with Alfred Hitchcock more than once |
| 49% | JAMES | 5 | ___ Stewart, "Rear Window" actor who worked with Alfred Hitchcock more than once |
| 49% | LUDWIGVAN | 9 | With 49-Across, classical composer who wrote many works after becoming deaf: 2 wds. |
| 48% | MCESCHER | 8 | Artist with many mathematically inspired works |
| 48% | INTO | 4 | Occupied with |
| 48% | UPTO | 4 | Occupied with |
| 48% | TASK | 4 | Assign someone with work |
| 47% | GRACE | 5 | ___ Kelly, "Dial M for Murder" actress who worked with Alfred Hitchcock more than once |
| 47% | MAN | 3 | Occupy with personnel |
| 46% | TATE | 4 | Home to many John Constable works, with "the" |
| 46% | CARROLL | 7 | Leo G. ___, "Strangers on a Train" actor who worked with Alfred Hitchcock more than once |
| 46% | SNOWED | 6 | __ under, swamped with work |