| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| CAREFUL | Painstaking | |
| DILIGENT | Painstaking | |
| SEDULOUS | Painstaking | |
| THOROUGH | Painstaking | |
| ASSIDUOUS | Painstaking | |
| METICULOUS | Painstaking | |
| PENIBLE | Painstaking; assidous. | |
| CURIOUSNESS | Carefulness; painstaking. | |
| PAINFUL | Painstaking; careful; industrious. | |
| LUCUBRATORY | Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking. | |
| DILIGENCE | Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service. | |
| ELABORATE | Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. | |