| 100% | RETIRED | 7 | Turned to a life of leisure, ended work life |
| 45% | COMMUTED | 8 | Traveled to a place of work |
| 45% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | TV show about a high school teacher turning to a life of crime which is ranked 3rd on Rolling Stone's 2016 list of "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time": 2 wds. |
| 45% | SEDENTARY | 9 | A life of little movement, akin to office workers |
| 45% | CHECKMATE | 9 | Winning end to a game of chess |
| 44% | COMMUTE | 7 | Travel each day to a place of work |
| 44% | ROSE | 4 | Final ___, end to a season of "The Bachelor" |
| 44% | BETATESTED | 10 | Subjected to a round of end-user evaluation |
| 44% | ERG | 3 | Unit of work that becomes a word meaning "thus" if you add an O to the end |
| 43% | SWINGTIME | 9 | Turn to use a piece of playground equipment? |
| 43% | TOECAP | 6 | Metal end to a work boot |
| 42% | AUTOMATE | 8 | Turn all work over to machines instead of humans |
| 42% | CARTEL | 6 | A group of suppliers working to keep prices high |
| 42% | FLAME | 5 | Working end of a candle |
| 42% | ADDENDA | 7 | A list of items to be added to written works |
| 42% | CLIFFHANGER | 11 | Tense ending to an episode of a serial |
| 42% | CHECKMATE | 9 | Winning move to end a game of chess |
| 42% | FATELINE | 8 | Indicator of success in life, to a palmist |
| 42% | VARIETY | 7 | The spice of life, according to a saying |
| 42% | PRESUME | 7 | End of a question to Livingstone |
| 41% | SPIN | 4 | Take a turn in the Game of Life, say |
| 41% | ETC | 3 | Nonspecific way to end a list of items: Abbr. |
| 41% | FRI | 3 | End of a standard work week: Abbr. |
| 41% | NOMAD | 5 | Person who lives a life of little pleasures, wandering about from place to place |
| 41% | EEL | 3 | A type of this aqua life generates electricity to shock other animals |
| 41% | SPIN | 4 | First step of a turn in The Game of Life |
| 41% | DOWNSHIFT | 9 | Change to a lower gear or simpler way of life |
| 41% | SUFFIX | 6 | Letters added to a word's end, opposite of prefix |
| 41% | THANKSGIVINGTURQUOISE | 21 | Birds served near the end of November, to a jeweler? |
| 41% | COTEACHER | 9 | One of two colleagues working together to run a classroom |