| Impaired gradually | 18 |
| Held up in use | 14 |
| Had on one's person | 23 |
| Got threadbare | 14 |
| Fatigued (with "down") | 32 |
| Eroded away | 11 |
| Dressed in | 10 |
| Dragged (on) | 12 |
| Disappeared, with "off" | 33 |
| Diminished gradually, with "off" | 42 |
| Deteriorated, with "out" | 34 |
| Clad oneself in | 15 |
| Became unusable through heavy use, with "out" | 55 |
| Became threadbare, with "out" | 39 |
| Became thin | 11 |
| Became tedious | 14 |
| Ate (into) | 10 |
| "When You ___ a Tulip . . . ": 1914 song | 50 |
| "When you ___ a tulip . . . " | 39 |
| ___ down (exhausted) | 20 |
| ___ a happy smile (beamed) | 26 |
| "When You ___ Tulip . . . " | 37 |
| "She ___ Yellow Ribbon" | 33 |
| "She ___ Yellow Ribbon," 1949 film | 44 |
| "She __ Yellow Ribbon": 1949 John Wayne film | 54 |
| Dressed like a nurse | 20 |
| "When You ___" | 24 |
| Did some undercover work | 24 |
| Exhausted, in a way | 19 |
| Lost its effect | 15 |
| Passed tediously | 16 |
| Continued without letup | 23 |
| Began to irritate | 17 |
| Sported certain shoes | 21 |
| Modeled margarine? | 18 |
| Became harder to bear | 21 |
| Lost appeal over time | 21 |
| Grew less appealing, as an argument | 35 |
| Became harder to take | 21 |
| Served to weaken | 16 |
| Klingon on the Enterprise | 25 |
| Enterprise Klingon | 18 |
| "Star Trek" Klingon | 29 |
| "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Klingon (anagram of ROW F) | 69 |
| Officer on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' | 51 |
| Klingon on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 40 |
| Klingon on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' | 51 |
| Klingon officer on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' | 59 |
| Klingon officer in the "Star Trek" franchise | 54 |
| Klingon aboard the Enterprise | 29 |
| Operate properly | 16 |
| Join the rat race | 17 |
| Word with make or piece | 23 |
| The end of art? | 15 |
| Something cited in a citation | 29 |
| Solve, as a puzzle | 18 |
| Résumé sender's goal | 30 |
| Put in one's eight hours | 28 |
| Part of W.P.A. | 14 |
| Opus or employment | 18 |
| Nine-to-five routine, and hint to this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Lead-in for -aholic | 19 |
| Idler's anathema | 20 |
| Function as promised | 20 |
| End of a Ross Thatcher quote | 28 |
| Dulling influence for Jack | 26 |
| Cry made while cracking a whip, maybe | 37 |
| Come out all right | 18 |
| Be employed | 11 |
| A bummer for bums | 17 |
| "The refuge of people who have nothing better to do," according to Oscar Wilde | 88 |
| "___ Without Hope": Coleridge | 39 |
| Not hopeless, as a plan | 23 |
| Strive to meet a deadline | 25 |
| Be on a strict deadline | 23 |
| Person who doesn't know when to quit | 40 |
| Employee who rarely takes off | 29 |
| Nonstop doer | 12 |
| Nine-to-niner, e.g. | 19 |
| Nine-to-niner | 13 |
| He sleeps with his briefcase | 28 |
| Busy bodies? | 12 |
| "For men must ___ women must weep": Kingsley | 54 |
| Office or operating room, e.g. | 30 |
| Glad-hand, as politicians are wont to do | 40 |
| Programmer's way to sidestep a problem | 42 |
| Make the boss proud, in a way | 29 |
| Toil over | 9 |
| Strive to achieve | 17 |
| Persevere on a job | 18 |
| It often gets notions | 21 |
| Carpenter's table | 21 |
| Student volume with exercises | 29 |
| Holders of class exercises | 26 |
| Heavy footwear | 14 |
| Chain gangs, e.g. | 17 |
| 9-to-5 period, e.g. | 19 |
| 9 to 5, often | 13 |
| You might go to bed early before these | 38 |
| When stunned employees earn their pay? | 38 |