Answer: WORK
WORK is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 54 times.
Referring Clues:
- 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
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - February 07, 2025
 - New York Times - October 06, 2022
 - USA Today - February 10, 2022
 - USA Today - September 23, 2021
 - LA Times - February 19, 2021
 - New York Times - December 08, 2020
 - USA Today - December 07, 2020
 - New York Times - September 23, 2020
 - New York Times - September 07, 2020
 - LA Times - May 21, 2020
 - LA Times - October 29, 2019
 - LA Times - October 25, 2019
 - Netword - July 04, 2019
 - LA Times - May 14, 2018
 - LA Times - March 14, 2018
 - LA Times - July 31, 2017
 - USA Today - June 07, 2017
 - Netword - January 30, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 17, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 20, 2015
 
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