| 100% | FISHMONGER | 10 | Professional whose business is scaling? |
| 55% | LEGO | 4 | Whose business is just around the block? |
| 54% | AIRMAN | 6 | One whose business is taking off? |
| 54% | TRASHMEN | 8 | People whose business is picking up? |
| 54% | MAID | 4 | One whose business is picking up |
| 54% | CABS | 4 | Ones whose business is picking up? |
| 54% | UBER | 4 | Company whose business is picking up |
| 54% | ROOFER | 6 | One whose business is mostly overhead? |
| 54% | STRIPPER | 8 | One whose business is taking off? |
| 54% | UMP | 3 | One whose business is home-based? |
| 54% | UBER | 4 | Company whose business is picking up? |
| 54% | UBER | 4 | Service whose business is picking up |
| 54% | UBER | 4 | Brand whose business is picking up |
| 54% | FORAGER | 7 | One whose business is picking up |
| 53% | SCUBADIVER | 10 | Sort whose business is going way down? |
| 52% | LINEJUDGE | 9 | Professional whose job is maintaining boundaries? |
| 51% | WEBMASTER | 9 | Professional whose work is up to code? |
| 51% | ECONOMISTS | 10 | Professionals whose expertise may be in demand? |
| 49% | GIBBONS | 7 | Edward Stanley —, postage stamp dealer whose business was established in 1856 |
| 49% | ACROBAT | 7 | Professional whose career, on balance, might be pretty good? |
| 46% | ARCADE | 6 | Business whose income is computed quarterly? |
| 46% | ARCADE | 6 | Business whose patrons are often fighting |
| 46% | SOFTBALLPLAYER | 14 | Professional whose favorite movie line might be "There's no place like home" |
| 45% | LIBRAS | 6 | People whose zodiac symbol is the scales |
| 45% | XXXXX | 5 | Major scale whose penultimate note is C |
| 44% | SPA | 3 | Business whose name is an anagram of 15-Across |
| 43% | CBI | 3 | Business organisation formed in 1965 whose current Director-General is Carolyn Fairbairn |
| 41% | IRS | 3 | Agcy. whose logo is an eagle holding a scale |
| 40% | LLC | 3 | Business entity whose owners are called members rather than shareholders: Abbr. |
| 39% | BALI | 4 | Indonesian island whose main business is tourism |