| 100% | VOCATION | 8 | Someone's job, especially a calling or commitment |
| 46% | ROOKIE | 6 | Someone new to a job or team |
| 45% | APPOINT | 7 | Assign a job or role to someone |
| 42% | VOCATION | 8 | A job or profession; a calling |
| 41% | DIAL | 4 | Call someone by turning a disk with numbered holes or pressing a set of buttons |
| 40% | PULLING | 7 | __ someone's leg; teasing or making a joke |
| 40% | WALK | 4 | Abandon, as with a job or commitment |
| 40% | NOMAD | 5 | Someone you may call a wanderer or vagabond |
| 38% | MEDICINE | 8 | A pill or cream used to improve someone's health |
| 37% | TIMBER | 6 | 2013 Pitbull hit featuring Kesha ... or a lumberjack's call |
| 37% | GRIND | 5 | Do a millworker or barista's job, maybe |
| 37% | DEVOTION | 8 | Dedication or commitment to a cause |
| 37% | GIG | 3 | Job for a comedian or DJ |
| 36% | SKYPE | 5 | Make a call to see someone nowadays? |
| 36% | POSITION | 8 | Job opening or a location |
| 36% | PARTYFOUL | 9 | Spilling a drink on someone or dancing on a host's sofa |
| 36% | TVSET | 5 | It's sometimes called a "boob tube" or "idiot box": 2 wds. |
| 35% | BAKER | 5 | Someone whose job is a piece of cake? |
| 35% | STORYTELLER | 11 | Someone who narrates a fairy tale ... or the title of Carrie Underwood's latest album |
| 35% | EMPLOY | 6 | Offer someone a job |
| 35% | CAPER | 5 | Focus of a heist movie like "Ocean's Eleven" or "The Italian Job" |
| 35% | EYEFUL | 6 | Spectacle, or (as a homophone) what you can't call today's puzzle |
| 35% | NOVICE | 6 | Person who's new to a job or religious community |
| 35% | TEL | 3 | Number that lets you call or text someone: Abbr. |
| 35% | EERIE | 5 | Like a call from someone one just thought about |
| 35% | TRAINEE | 7 | Someone learning how to do a job |
| 35% | FLOATER | 7 | Someone who changes jobs or address often |
| 35% | PARTTIME | 8 | A job with shorter or fewer shifts |
| 35% | IMNOTHERE | 9 | Call to someone answering a phone, maybe |
| 35% | BATTERUP | 8 | Call after which someone fills a box |