| Final step in becoming a doctor | 31 |
| Doctors' creed | 18 |
| Doctors take it | 15 |
| Doctor's vow | 16 |
| Doctor's rite of passage | 28 |
| Stadium for horse shows | 23 |
| Arena of a sort | 15 |
| "Here, ___" (naive big-game hunter's cry) | 55 |
| Pelvic contusion | 16 |
| Queen of the Amazons | 20 |
| Armed river horse | 17 |
| Literally "river horse" | 33 |
| George Carlin's weather man | 31 |
| Like George Carlin's weather man | 36 |
| Fashionable substitute? | 23 |
| "Hard starboard! It's Shakira!"? | 46 |
| Guitar-range extender | 21 |
| Successful dieter's thought while trying on jeans? | 54 |
| Clique of cows who totally knew about this patch of grass before anyone else? | 77 |
| "I will always wear black; even when I enjoy a concert I will never do more than sway disaffectedly," etc. | 116 |
| Those with affection for cool cats? | 35 |
| 1986 Huey Lewis and the News hit about how puzzlemakers feel? | 61 |
| 1986 Huey Lewis and the News hit | 32 |
| What is the oldest academic quiz competition in the U.S. (since 1948)? | 70 |
| Peg solitaire game | 18 |
| Old pronoun | 11 |
| "So was ___ joly whistle wel y-wet": Chaucer | 54 |
| Ready to work | 13 |
| Qualified to join a payroll | 27 |
| Qualified for the position | 26 |
| Qualified for the job | 21 |
| Highly qualified for a job | 26 |
| Able to get on the payroll | 26 |
| Japanese syllable set | 21 |
| Japanese syllabary | 18 |
| Set of cursive Japanese symbols | 31 |
| Fong and Walker | 15 |
| Fong and Grant | 14 |
| Having the necessary work credentials | 37 |
| Make certain wedding arrangements | 33 |
| Employed a penniless lady | 25 |
| Professional hitter? | 20 |
| Armed thugs | 11 |
| Subject of a long poem by Frost | 31 |
| Subject of a long Frost poem | 28 |
| Took a position | 15 |
| Took a job | 10 |
| Leased, as a car | 16 |
| Exchanged one's services for payment | 40 |
| Valentine's Day gifts that have to go back at the end of the night? (-Guns) | 79 |
| Wedding photographer, for one? | 30 |
| Recently acquired firm members | 30 |
| Ones coming on board | 20 |
| New faces in the break room | 27 |
| Firm acceptances? | 17 |
| One working solely for compensation | 35 |
| Paid servant | 12 |
| Menial worker only in it for the money | 38 |
| Work for a fee | 14 |
| Take on a freelance job | 23 |
| Offer one's services for a fee | 34 |
| Find jobs for, as temps | 23 |
| Accept employment | 17 |
| Sign some new sluggers? | 23 |
| Vitae reviewers | 15 |
| Personnel workers | 17 |
| Personnel directors | 19 |
| Human Resources folks | 21 |
| Fillers of job positions | 24 |
| Employment agency list | 22 |
| Employers, at times | 19 |
| Depression rarities | 19 |
| craigslist users, often | 23 |
| Gets ready to sound off | 23 |
| Gets an agent | 13 |
| Ardor of a new employee? | 24 |
| Personnel director's duty | 29 |
| Firing opposite | 15 |
| Personnel man's concern | 27 |
| Business practice | 17 |
| Personnel head's task | 25 |
| Personnel director's job | 28 |
| Personnel director's activity | 33 |
| Part of an HR employee's job | 32 |
| In need of help | 15 |
| Putting a Batman foe on the payroll? | 36 |
| Staffing decisions | 18 |
| Headhunter posses? | 18 |
| Masi Oka character Nakamura | 27 |
| WWII emperor | 12 |
| Showa emperor | 13 |
| Modern-day emperor | 18 |
| Longtime Asian ruler | 20 |
| Japanes emperor for 63 years | 28 |
| He spent December 25, 1926 succeeding to the Japanese throne | 60 |
| Emperor who surrendered to the Allies | 37 |
| Emperor during WWII | 19 |
| Historic Japanese city | 22 |
| '40s bomb site | 18 |
| Peace Memorial Museum locale | 28 |