| 100% | ELECTRIC | 8 | Needing to be plugged in to work |
| 76% | EVS | 3 | Cars that need to be plugged in (Abbr.) |
| 64% | DUE | 3 | Needing to be handed in |
| 63% | UNMADE | 6 | Needing to be tucked in, say? |
| 63% | SLEEP | 5 | Something that crossword constructors working to deadlines are often in dire need of |
| 62% | DEAD | 4 | Needing to be plugged into the charger |
| 62% | DUE | 3 | Needing to be turned in, as an assignment |
| 61% | TOPIARY | 7 | It needs to be kept in shape |
| 58% | EGO | 3 | Self related feeling that needs to be kept in check |
| 58% | EMTS | 4 | They may need to be experts in airway management: abbr. |
| 58% | DECIMAL | 7 | Claimed to be working in tens |
| 56% | DESTINATION | 11 | *Final place on a road trip that needs to be decided in advance |
| 56% | MARIA | 5 | She's a problem that needs to be solved, in song |
| 56% | VISAS | 5 | They need to be in order at a border |
| 55% | OIL | 3 | Liquid that needs to be changed regularly in a car |
| 55% | LOCK | 4 | Item in an escape room that needs to be opened |
| 55% | TESTED | 6 | Known to be in working order |
| 54% | ICE | 3 | What might need to be scraped off a windshield in winter |
| 53% | VALIDITY | 8 | Results in experiments need this to be useful |
| 53% | ERNANI | 6 | Verdi work that was the first opera to be recorded in its entirety |
| 51% | CABARETCARD | 11 | City license once needed to work in an establishment serving alcohol |
| 51% | REWARDED | 8 | To have been given bounty in exchange for work |
| 50% | NETS | 4 | While working in a kitchen it is sometimes mandatory to wear hair___ |
| 50% | TYRE | 4 | Car part that needs air to work (how it's spelled in Britain) |
| 50% | LEAN | 4 | "___ In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" (bestseller by Sheryl Sandberg) |
| 49% | INTERN | 6 | Something that German students completing their medical courses need not be in order to be an assistant doctor |
| 49% | LEAD | 4 | "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to ___" (bestseller by Sheryl Sandberg) |
| 49% | AROUND | 6 | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense |
| 48% | FAROCKI | 7 | Experimental filmmaker Harun whose work was deemed “almost too interesting to be art,” in a Times review |
| 48% | TEAM | 4 | *Group on a sports field ... being in which helps people learn how to work together |