| 100% | DRUMUP | 6 | Work to increase, as business |
| 55% | EARN | 4 | Work to get, as trust |
| 54% | REHABS | 6 | Works to heal, as an injury |
| 53% | BIDUP | 5 | Cause to increase, as an auction price |
| 53% | EARN | 4 | Work to get, as someone's trust |
| 52% | WENTABOUT | 9 | Tended to, as business |
| 48% | MEET | 4 | Get together, as to discuss business |
| 48% | DEADHEADS | 9 | Flies to work, as a pilot |
| 48% | YOKE | 4 | Join so as to work together |
| 47% | LIAISE | 6 | Connect so as to work together (with) |
| 47% | UNITE | 5 | Come together to work as a team |
| 47% | BLOCHEADS | 9 | Leaders inclined to work as a group? |
| 46% | OPENNOW | 7 | Ready to do business, as of this moment |
| 46% | CHANGEHANDS | 11 | Pass to a different owner, as a business |
| 46% | ONCALL | 6 | Available to work, as a doctor: 2 wds. |
| 45% | VOLUNTOLD | 9 | Assigned, as to do charity work, in modern lingo |
| 45% | HEIGHHO | 7 | Seven Dwarfs' cry as off to work they go |
| 45% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who referred to his works as a "legendarium" |
| 44% | KEN | 3 | Comic actor Jeong who used to work as a doctor |
| 43% | DESKFAN | 7 | It'll circulate air to keep you cool as you work |
| 43% | ORLAN | 5 | French multimedia artist who refers to her work as "carnal art" |
| 43% | FRANZ | 5 | Bohemian Jewish author Kafka who used to work as a law clerk |
| 43% | SARAHTHOMAS | 11 | First woman to work as a full-time NFL official (2 wds.) |
| 42% | MERGE | 5 | To combine into one, as business firms |
| 42% | STEVEDORE | 9 | Patrick Moynihan worked as one before going to City College of New York |
| 41% | ANDS | 4 | Working as a carpenter for so long, caused the man's h___ to become very rough |
| 41% | HARPER | 6 | American author Lee who used to work as an airline ticket agent in NYC |
| 41% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | To increase fivefold |
| 41% | AGENDA | 6 | Work to do |
| 41% | TOIL | 4 | Work to exhaustion |