Referring Clues

• Busy
• Toiling
• Very busy
• Working
• Plugging away
• Bickering
• Working hard
• Fighting
• Arguing
• Spatting
• On the job
• Squabbling
• Going strong
• Bickering, say
• Going ___ (fighting)
• Going ___
• Buckling down
• Get ___ (start work)
• Quarreling
• Busy on a job
• Going ___ tooth and nail
• Keep ___ (persevere)
• Battling
• Toiling away
• Slaving away
• Engaged
• Working away
• Wrangling
• Fighting, often with "again"
• Feuding
• Having one's nose to the grindstone
• Go ___ (tussle)
• Keep ___ (persist)
• Busting one's back
• Hard ___
• Keep ___ (persist)
• Having words
• Going ___ (bickering)
• Scuffling
• Words after hard or keep
• Arguing loudly
• In a row
• Hard ___ (busily engaged)
• Working tirelessly
• Busily working
• Hard ___ (busily working)
• Hard ___ (slaving away)
• "They're ___ again!"
• Going full tilt
• "While you're ___..."
• "No matter how you look ___..."
• Fighting tooth and nail
• "Have ___!" ("Knock yourself out!")
• Battling fiercely
• Busy, busy, busy
• Persisting
• In an argument
• Going full throttle
• Busily engaged
• Busting one's hump
• Attacking the job
• Have ___
• Engaged in a 38-Down
• Exchanging words
• Having an argument
• Sparring
• Working busily
• Going ___: squabbling
• Words after keep or go
• Have a go ___ (try)
• Take a crack ___ (try)
• Working diligently
• Take a crack ___
• Keep ___ (persevere)
• Steadily working
• Going ___ (fighting)
• Has one's nose to the grindstone, e.g.
• Go ___ (fight)
• Fighting like mad
• "While you're ___ ..."
• "Look ___ this way ..."
• Have a go ___ (try)
• Haggling
• Going ___: squabbling
• Take a crack ___ (try)
• Take a crack ___
• Busy working
• Going head to head
• Words after keep or have
• "Keep ___!"
• "Keep ___!"
• "Keep____ !"
• "Keep___ !"
• Toiling hard
• Arguing
• Having a tiff
• Back to old habits
• Having a set-to
• Grinding away
• Vigorously pursuing something
• Causing trouble
• Persevering, say
• Like perennial rivals, constantly
• In a shouting match, perhaps
• Warring, say
• Going ___ (battling)
• Locking horns
• Fully engaged
• On task
• Attacking the task
• Fighting (again)
• Not procrastinating
• Going ___ (squabbling)
• Going ___: fighting
• "They're ___ again"
• Having a row
• Engaged in an activity
• Down to business
• Having a scrap
• Keep ___ (continue)
• Butting heads
• Working on the task
• Keep ___: persevere
• Studying like crazy, say
• Arguing or laboring
• Having a spat
• Keep ___ (persevere) (2 words)
• Busily working (2 words)
• A bird engaged in some activity
• Busy being a bit platitudinous
• Engaged in something particular
• Up to no good
• Busy as a bee
• "Are you two ___ again?"
• “Have ___!” (“Go ahead!”)
• Warring
• A bird mating
• Having sex with a bird
• A flighty creature up to some criminal activity
• A small songbird occupied in a particular way
• A bird fighting vigorously
• "If you look ___ another way ...": 2 wds.
• Keep ___ (be persistent)
• Words with "keep"
• Take a crack ___ (try something): 2 wds.
• Getting the job done
• Go ___ tooth and nail
• Fighting, perhaps
• Arguing vehemently
• Fighting like cats and dogs
• Going ___ (arguing)
• Having a shouting match, say
• Hard ___ (toiling away)
• Tussling
• Trying hard
• Working or fighting
• Busy in a titanic struggle?
• Hard at work
• In a tussle
• Back ___ again
• "While we're ___ ..."
• Battling (again)
• Working or wrangling
• "You're looking ___!"
• "Have ___" ("Go ahead and try")
• Take a crack ___ (make an attempt)
• Beavering away
• "No matter which way you look ___ ..."
• Mano a mano
• Back ___: making a comeback
• Doing the thing in question out of gratitude?
• Words after keep or going
• In a fight
• With 54-Down, back to fighting
• Working hard on a job
• Bumping heads
• In a scuffle
• "Back ___ again at Krispy Kreme"
• In a quarrel
• Coming to blows, say
• Grinding along
• Still going