| Was operational | 15 |
| Did the job | 11 |
| Tried to improve | 16 |
| Collaborated | 12 |
| Tried to influence | 18 |
| Exercised one's doggies? | 28 |
| Sterile bee | 11 |
| Many a bee | 10 |
| Apiarist's study, sometimes? | 32 |
| Queen's underling | 21 |
| Office cog | 10 |
| Union complaint? | 16 |
| Foreman's force | 19 |
| Government jobs program | 23 |
| Article by a staffer, for instance | 34 |
| Earn starvation wages | 21 |
| Part of a Voltaire comment | 26 |
| Employment record | 17 |
| Tireless sort | 13 |
| Tireless laborer | 16 |
| Paper ___ (clerk who's a real nag?) | 39 |
| Where poor Brits labored | 24 |
| Entrepreneur's funds | 24 |
| Current assets minus current liabilities | 40 |
| Job for a high school teacher? | 30 |
| Features of lobster laborers? | 29 |
| Terkel/Updike book about two-income families? | 45 |
| Melanie Griffith film: 1988 | 27 |
| '70 Grateful Dead album | 27 |
| The Boss' 2009 album | 24 |
| Emulating Hillary or a solver of this puzzle | 44 |
| Weekend military chore? | 23 |
| "So I hear your job as exercise class instructor is __" | 65 |
| Negotiating | 11 |
| Marginal economic group | 23 |
| Don't refer to him as a ___ ... | 35 |
| Blue-collar joe | 15 |
| Low-level employees | 19 |
| Busman's holiday | 20 |
| Businessperson's oxymoron | 29 |
| Form small teams at school | 26 |
| Piece of unfinished business | 28 |
| Make time for aerobics classes? | 31 |
| Observation by Gibran | 21 |
| Put in overtime | 15 |
| Massage a condom? | 17 |
| What a busy professional might struggle to juggle | 49 |
| Toil diligently | 15 |
| Emulate the effort of Earvin Johnson? | 37 |
| Sets of tasks, as at an office | 30 |
| Business burdens | 16 |
| Artisan's skill | 19 |
| Associate on the job | 20 |
| Occupant of the next cubicle | 28 |
| Many hands | 10 |
| Self-censorship applied at the office, in modern day slang | 58 |
| Hitler's blitzkreig theory was based on the _____ | 53 |
| Man's labor? | 16 |
| Catching mice? | 14 |
| Try to fix | 10 |
| Toil away at | 12 |
| Strive to improve | 17 |
| Toil long and hard | 18 |
| Contractor's document | 25 |
| A job ticket often accompanies one | 34 |
| Get exercise | 12 |
| Daily dozen, e.g. | 17 |
| Crunch time? | 12 |
| Study thoroughly | 16 |
| Do a magazine editor's job? | 31 |
| Hairdo for the office? | 22 |
| Minor employment need? | 22 |
| Where things get done | 21 |
| Tinkerer's spot | 19 |
| Office or studio | 16 |
| Watch's innards | 19 |
| Has a job | 9 |
| The ___ (everything) | 20 |
| The ___ (all) | 13 |
| Plies one's trade | 21 |
| Operates well | 13 |
| Mechanical parts | 16 |
| Is operational | 14 |
| Is in order | 11 |
| Is in operating condition | 25 |
| Everything, at a hot dog stand | 30 |
| All the toppings, with 'the' | 36 |
| ____ puzzle: solves a crossword | 31 |
| Toils over | 10 |
| Tries to improve | 16 |
| A Southern sodbuster ___ | 24 |
| Accountants' backups | 24 |
| Clocked-in time | 15 |
| 9 to 5, for instance | 20 |
| Part of a uniform | 17 |
| Heavy-duty top | 14 |
| Handyman's milieu | 21 |
| Place with sawdust | 18 |
| Garage, sometimes | 17 |
| Office, e.g. | 12 |