Answer: WORK
WORK is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 54 times.
- Have an effect
- Function
- Lead-in for -aholic
- Labor
- Have an effect (on)
- Task
- Succeed
- Slacker's bane
- Operate properly
- Get the job done
- Productive activity
- Nine-to-five destination
- Toil
- Job
- "The refuge of people who have nothing better to do," according to Oscar Wilde
- #16
- Nine-to-five routine
- Succeed, with "out"
- Put in one's eight hours
- Nine-to-five routine, and hint to this puzzle's theme
- Employment
- See 61-Across
- Cry made while cracking a whip, maybe
- A bummer for bums
- Need after being canned
- Come out all right
- Drudgery
- Do the job
- Elbow grease
- Elbow grease
- The end of art?
- End of a Ross Thatcher quote
- *Function as promised
- Heavy exertion
- Run
- Earn a living
- Do the trick
- Something cited in a citation
- Get down to business
- Prove effective
- Opposite of play
- "all useful ___ stopped forever" (peter, on the effect of 20-across)
- Function properly
- Do a shift
- 2016 #1 hit for Rihanna, which can precede both parts of 17-, 25-, 35-, 49- and 59-Across
- With 28-Across, tireless sort
- Have the desired effect
- ___ load
- Ending for "right to" or "put to"
- Forms to process
- 2016 Rihanna hit
- 9-to-5 activity
- Tasks
- Stop ___ order: bad news on a construction site