| JUMPONIT | Get right to work, or a hint to 16-, 22-, 36- or 51-Across |
| BEEKEEPER | Apiculturist ... and, playfully, what 16-, 22-, 36- or 49-Across is |
| FOODFIGHT | Cafeteria brawl in which one might 16-, 23-, 36-, or 51-Across? |
| ONIT | "I'll get right to work!" |
| JUSTAPHASE | The terrible twos, e.g. (one hopes!) ... or the start of 17-, 22-, 36- or 45-Across? |
| PLOT | Word for a patch of ground; a secret scheme; a plan of a literary work; or, a storyline said to thicken when becoming curiouser and curiouser (4) |
| ENAMEL | The hardest substance in the body; a glossy paint; a vitreous glaze fused to metal in cloisonne work; or, a durable coating for vintage kitchenalia (6) |
| REEL | Spool or bobbin for cotton or fishing-line; compilation of sample film work; or, a Highland dance (4) |
| LABORATORY | Where to research a right to work in America (10) |
| SCENARIO | Outline of a dramatic work or a general situation (8) |
| ASSAYER | On a ship, always get right to an inspector (7) |
| SERVANT | The humble person set out to get right to the fore |
| RANGER | Anger at having the right to work in a park (6) |
| SCRUB | Young scouts have the right to work in a laundry (5) |
| MOONLIGHTER | A mole has no right to work like that - some would say, unfairly! (11) |
| STINT | Word for an allowance; an allotted period of work; or, a little wading bird, sometimes called a peep (5) |
| SMALTO | From Italian for "enamel, glaze, melt", name given to coloured glass for mosaic work; or, a traditionally Venetian hand-cut cube of it (6) |
| CLERICAL | Related to office work or a religious office |
| ORATORIO | Large-scale work, or a small-scale piece about nothing (8) |
| FOIL | Throw a spanner in the works....or a sword. (4) |
