| Return interest | 15 |
| Receive for effort | 18 |
| Receive a stipend | 17 |
| Qualify for a W2 | 16 |
| Prove worthy of | 15 |
| Produce income | 14 |
| Produce dividends | 17 |
| Pick up, as interest | 20 |
| Pick up a paycheck | 18 |
| Obtain through labor | 20 |
| Obtain for | 10 |
| Not get merely by accident | 26 |
| Merit by performance | 20 |
| Make, as dough | 14 |
| Make some bread | 15 |
| Make salt, in a way | 19 |
| Make moola | 10 |
| Make money, e.g. | 16 |
| Make in income | 14 |
| Make bucks | 10 |
| Make bread? | 11 |
| Make bacon? | 11 |
| Make at the office | 18 |
| Make (money) | 12 |
| Make (a living) | 15 |
| Join the work force | 19 |
| Gross, so to speak | 18 |
| Get through work | 16 |
| Get through labor | 17 |
| Get through hard work | 21 |
| Get the hard way | 16 |
| Get paid for a gig | 18 |
| Get paid | 8 |
| Get justly | 10 |
| Get by get-up-and-go | 20 |
| Get as profit | 13 |
| Get a salary | 12 |
| Get a paycheck | 14 |
| Garner, as interest | 19 |
| Garner interest | 15 |
| Gain, as profit | 15 |
| Gain income | 11 |
| Gain from effort | 16 |
| Gain as due return | 18 |
| Engender interest | 17 |
| Emulate Tillie the Toiler | 25 |
| Draw wages | 10 |
| Draw some interest | 18 |
| Draw a salary | 13 |
| Command a salary | 16 |
| Come about honestly | 19 |
| Collect from work | 17 |
| Collect a check legitimately | 28 |
| Classic Hanks line in "Saving Private Ryan," "___ this" | 75 |
| Bring home, as the bacon | 24 |
| Bring home the groceries | 24 |
| Bring home from work | 20 |
| Bring home bacon | 16 |
| Be gainfully employed | 21 |
| Be a jobholder | 14 |
| Backyard Babies "___ the Crown" | 41 |
| Anagram for near | 16 |
| Acquire through effort | 22 |
| Acquire the old-fashioned way | 29 |
| Acquire by one's efforts | 28 |
| Acquire ''the old-fashioned way'' | 49 |
| Accrue income | 13 |
| "Urn" homonym | 23 |
| "I ___ that I eat": Shak. | 35 |
| "I ___ that I eat!": Shak. | 36 |
| ___ one's keep | 18 |
| ___ a reputation | 16 |
| ___ living (support oneself) | 28 |
| ___ living (bring home the bacon) | 33 |
| __ living (be employed) | 23 |
| ___ living | 10 |
| ___ decent living | 17 |
| "What a way to --- living!" | 37 |
| "What a way to ___ living" | 36 |
| "What a way to ___ living!" | 37 |
| "To ___ little . . . ": R.L.S. | 40 |
| "No one can __ million dollars honestly": Bryan | 57 |
| " . . . to ___ little and to spend a little less": R.L.S. | 67 |
| " . . . to ___ little . . . ": R.L.S. | 47 |
| ''What a way to ___ living!'' | 45 |
| --- living (support oneself) | 28 |
| -- living (work for wages) | 26 |
| ___ living (manage) | 19 |
| ___ living (make money) | 23 |
| __ promotion (do well at work) | 30 |
| Merited | 7 |
| Cleared | 7 |
| Netted | 6 |
| Won | 3 |
| Took home | 9 |
| Not just given | 14 |
| Worked for | 10 |
| Part of ERA | 11 |
| Pulled down | 11 |
| Like some runs | 14 |