| 100% | DAM | 3 | Public works project |
| 83% | TVA | 3 | Pre-W.W. II public works project, for short |
| 64% | DDE | 3 | Pres. who signed the Fed. Aid Highway Act, the largest - at $25 billion - public works project in US history at the time (abbr.) |
| 63% | BIGDIG | 6 | Boston public-works project that severely overran its deadline |
| 61% | TVA | 3 | Public works inits. |
| 61% | ARTEXHIBIT | 10 | Public works program? |
| 56% | MUSEUM | 6 | Site of public works |
| 56% | STREETARTISTS | 13 | Creators of public works |
| 56% | CASE | 4 | Lawyer's work project |
| 55% | TVA | 3 | 1930's public works prog. |
| 55% | TVA | 3 | Dam-building public works org. |
| 54% | EDILE | 5 | Overseer of ancient Roman public works |
| 52% | BOONDOGGLES | 11 | Public projects of questionable merit |
| 52% | ARTINSTALLATION | 15 | Work out in public, perhaps |
| 51% | NUDES | 5 | Works in "The Full Body Project" |
| 48% | TRIALBALLOON | 12 | Project announced as a test of public opinion |
| 46% | DNASAVAGE | 9 | Brute working on the Human Genome Project? |
| 46% | FRISCH | 6 | Otto who worked on the Manhattan Project |
| 45% | SPEC | 4 | Work on ___ (do freelance projects without a guarantee of payment) |
| 44% | INNOCENCE | 9 | ___ Project (nonprofit that works on behalf of the wrongly convicted) |
| 44% | YARNBOMBING | 11 | Street art that covers public fixtures with knitted works |
| 43% | DOCTORS | 7 | Gorilla ___, organization that works on mountain gorilla veterinary projects |
| 43% | OED | 3 | Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project |
| 42% | PROBONO | 7 | Legal-Latin term for work done for the public good |
| 42% | CIAWORLDFACTBOOK | 16 | Reference work in the public domain that's updated weekly |
| 42% | DIYER | 5 | Person who spends the weekends working on house projects, familiarly |
| 40% | LEARY | 5 | Timothy who worked on the Harvard Psilocybin Project in the 1960s |
| 40% | OLDENBURG | 9 | Sculptor Claes (1929-2022) whose public works featured ordinary objects such as 11- and 14-Across |
| 38% | SEW | 3 | Work on "Project Runway," for example |
| 35% | SEW | 3 | Do some work on "Project Runway" |