| 100% | RETIRE | 6 | To stop working and voluntarily end one's career |
| 44% | RETIRE | 6 | Stop work and go to bed |
| 44% | RETIRED | 7 | Stopped work and went to bed |
| 40% | RETIRES | 7 | Ends one's career |
| 39% | RAINMEN | 7 | Ones working to end a drought |
| 38% | SAW | 3 | One going back and forth to work |
| 37% | AMBASSADOROFGOODTWILL | 21 | One working to promote high-quality serge and denim? |
| 36% | INTHEDOGHOUSE | 13 | Out of favor with one's partner, and where to find the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | YOULLPAYFORTHIS | 15 | Vow made while shaking one's fist or when referring to the ends of 17-, 29-, 43-, and 59-Across? |
| 35% | RETIRES | 7 | Finishes one's work career |
| 34% | LUST | 4 | Emotion that seems to end a lot of established and promising careers |
| 34% | THREESOMES | 10 | Each answer to a starred clue begins and ends with identical ones |
| 34% | ATE | 3 | Put one's teeth to work |
| 34% | SAWED | 5 | Put one's teeth to work |
| 34% | ITSAJOB | 7 | Comment about routine work ... and hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 34% | ITSALIVING | 10 | Facetious reply downplaying one’s fabulous and lucrative career |
| 34% | GRADUATION | 10 | End of one's college career |
| 34% | SLAVEAWAY | 9 | Work one's fingers to the bone |
| 34% | SLAVE | 5 | Work one's fingers to the bone |
| 34% | TOILS | 5 | Works one's fingers to the bone |
| 34% | SKIS | 4 | Works one's way to the bottom |
| 33% | RETIRE | 6 | End, as one's career |
| 33% | RESIGN | 6 | Singer forced to stop work |
| 33% | GYMRAT | 6 | One who's probably going to work out |
| 33% | LATEBLOOMER | 11 | One who catches up eventually ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 30- and 46-Across |
| 33% | LOOTANDBEHOLD | 13 | Stop to admire one's pillaging? |
| 33% | CREDIT | 6 | Acknowledgement to one's work |
| 32% | BECK | 4 | At one's ___ and call (ready to obey orders) |
| 32% | BECK | 4 | At one's ___ and call (ready to follow orders) |
| 32% | KNOCKOFF | 8 | An imitation or copy; to stop work |