| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DILIGENT | Industrious | |
| BUSYBEE | Industrious person | |
| ANT | Industrious insect | |
| DEEDY | Industrious; active. | |
| PAINFUL | Painstaking; careful; industrious. | |
| IDLEST | Least industrious manoeuvre listed | |
| LABORIOUS | Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic. | |
| SCRAFFLE | To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious. | |
| INACTIVE | Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer. | |
| INDUSTRIOUS | Steadily and perseveringly active in a particular pursuit or aim; as, he was negligent in business, but industrious in pleasure; an industrious mischief maker. | |
| SEDULOUS | Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee. | |
| UNLESS | ... that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious. ... | |