| 100% | THEMANWHOWOULDBEKIN | 19 | Unfinished Rudyard Kipling work about a future son-in-law? |
| 39% | ACLOCKWORKORANG | 15 | Unfinished Anthony Burgess work about a punctual primate? |
| 37% | CLERKED | 7 | Worked in a law office |
| 37% | GUNGADIN | 8 | 1892 Rudyard Kipling poem about a bhisti, or water-carrier |
| 36% | RECALLWAITING | 13 | Reminisce about working in a restaurant? |
| 35% | JETSONS | 7 | "The ___," Hanna-Barbera animated sitcom about a family in the future |
| 34% | PARALEGAL | 9 | Works with law but not in the level of a lawyer |
| 34% | WALLE | 5 | Pixar film about robots set in a dystopian future: Hyph. |
| 34% | MOWGLI | 6 | Rudyard Kipling's protagonist from "The Jungle Book" who gets lost in the jungle as a baby |
| 33% | JETSONS | 7 | "The ___," animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera which is about a family in the future |
| 33% | HAIL | 4 | "___, Caesar!" 2016 mystery film starring Josh Brolin about a fixer working in the film industry |
| 33% | WHITE | 5 | "The ___ Seal," 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling which is about a rare seal's journey |
| 33% | WALL | 4 | "___-E," 2008 animated movie about a robot cleaning up a trashed Earth in a dystopian future |
| 32% | YOURHONOR | 9 | Showtime drama about a judge trying to protect his son from mobsters in New Orleans: 2 wds. |
| 32% | DEAR | 4 | "___ Future Husband," 2014 track by Meghan Trainor about her wishes in a potential suitor |
| 32% | THELYINGWOODS | 13 | 2018 mystery by 44-Across about a boy who works in an orchard in rural Louisiana (3 wds.) |
| 31% | FACTUM | 6 | In law, a deed |
| 31% | UTOPIA | 6 | Thomas More work about a perfect society |
| 31% | APPROACHNOVEL | 13 | *Fictional work about a pick-up artist? |
| 30% | BIFF | 4 | Son in “Death of a Salesman” |
| 30% | NISI | 4 | In law, a type of decree |
| 30% | VENDETTA | 8 | "V for ___," graphic novel by Alan Moore about a dystopian future in the UK that was adapted into a Natalie Portman film |
| 30% | BLANKSPACE | 10 | Taylor Swift song about a future ex (2 wds.) |
| 29% | GUNGADIN | 8 | Rudyard Kipling's poem about Indian water-bearer |
| 29% | RYEINTHECATCHER | 15 | Salinger's unpublished work about a drunk dog pound employee? |
| 29% | THEORIGINOFSPECIE | 17 | Unfinished Charles Darwin work about mints? |
| 29% | MARRIEDTOTHEMOP | 15 | Film about a career in janitoring? |
| 29% | ERATO | 5 | Orate about a figure in myth |
| 29% | BILL | 4 | Law in the works |
| 29% | KNEAD | 5 | Work, in a way |