| 100% | EARNS | 5 | Receives in return for effort |
| 54% | SELLS | 5 | Gets money in return for |
| 54% | AVENGE | 6 | Inflict harm in return for |
| 53% | AVENGED | 7 | Harmed in return for harm caused |
| 53% | EARN | 4 | Get money in return for labour |
| 53% | EARN | 4 | Obtain money in return for labour |
| 52% | APLEA | 5 | Cop ___ (confess in return for lighter punishment) |
| 52% | REWARDS | 7 | Things given in return for good acts |
| 51% | EARN | 4 | Obtain money in return for labor or services |
| 51% | BRIBING | 7 | Gifting money in return for an illegal benefit |
| 51% | BLACKMAIL | 9 | Demand money in return for not releasing info |
| 51% | PRO | 3 | "Quid ___ Quo" (favor granted in return for something) |
| 50% | EMBLEM | 6 | Yours truly twice getting pound in return for symbol |
| 50% | EARNER | 6 | Someone who obtains wages in return for their labor |
| 50% | SELL | 4 | To exchange something with someone in return for money |
| 49% | RINKRAT | 7 | Kid who does chores in return for free skating time |
| 49% | AVENGE | 6 | Get payback in return for a wrong done to another |
| 47% | EARNINGS | 8 | Money received in exchange for work |
| 47% | EARN | 4 | Receive money for effort |
| 44% | EARN | 4 | Receive payment in return of work done |
| 44% | PINE | 4 | Long for sleuth to return in French style |
| 41% | NAN | 3 | Robertson who received a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1983 |
| 41% | BARR | 4 | Roseanne who received around 67,000 votes for president in 2012 |
| 40% | ANA | 3 | ___ for effort |
| 40% | BIG | 3 | Movie for which Tom Hanks received his first Oscar nomination in '89 |
| 40% | IRS | 3 | Agency that receives many returns in April: Abbr. |
| 40% | IDOL | 4 | Talent show that returned in 2018, for short |
| 40% | ACE | 3 | Serve and receive nothing in return |
| 39% | FOY | 3 | Claire who received a 2017 Emmy nomination for her role in "The Crown" |
| 38% | INTEREST | 8 | Money that you receive from a bank for keeping money in an account there |