| 100% | CHILLEDWITHFEAR | 15 | "... and when I hand-deliver a package, the recipients are positively ___ - it's very satisfying!" |
| 37% | NOONTIME | 8 | When hands are at the very top of a clock |
| 36% | UPRISE | 6 | Revolt, and when its two syllables are swapped, a phrase meaning the same thing |
| 34% | ATSIX | 5 | When a hand's up and the other's down |
| 33% | CHORD | 5 | "Now I've heard there was a secret ___ / That David played and it pleased the Lord" ("Hallelujah" lyric) |
| 33% | AUTOGRAPH | 9 | (4/6) "I got the batter's ___ on it after the game. This day has been a dream and I wish it didn't have to end" |
| 33% | ELFFUR | 6 | ... Looking back on it, I'm glad I bought that and not the ___. Luxurious Santa is a bad look!
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| 33% | HEARTOFGLASS | 12 | 1979 Blondie #1 song with the lyrics "Once I had a love and it was a gas" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | DELIVERED | 9 | Handed over a package to the correct recipient |
| 33% | OBOE | 4 | Its "reeds are a pain / And the fingering's insane," per Ogden Nash |
| 33% | HXHHXHHXHHXHHXH | 15 | When the ends of each of its letters are connected to those above and below, a simplified schematic of a famous structure |
| 33% | LOIS | 4 | When I discovered that my son's school was built on a toxic waste dump, I fought for the cleanup of Love Canal and got more than 800 families evacuated |
| 32% | GRAY | 4 | *Idiom with the color changed! Once in a ___ moon, when something is a very common occurrence and not a rare sight |
| 32% | VOICEMAIL | 9 | It may be left after the beep when a call's not answered: 2 wds. |
| 32% | SUPER | 5 | Word that's its own synonym when a "b" is added to the end |
| 31% | SAYYES | 6 | "You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess / It's a love story, baby, just ___ ... " (Taylor Swift lyric) |
| 31% | HARE | 4 | I'm a rabbit's "Snow" cousin and the cold never bothered me anyway. Who am I? |
| 31% | TINA | 4 | Girl's name that becomes a contraction when its first and last letters are switched |
| 31% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name becomes that of a currency when its second letter is doubled and its last two letters are moved to the front |
| 31% | OLEG | 4 | Man's name that becomes a toy when its first letter is moved to the end |
| 31% | ENTRANTRANT | 11 | "I should've won! I was robbed! It's all rigged!" and the like? |
| 31% | LEADINGQUESTION | 15 | It's designed to elicit a certain answer ... or where the end of 17-, 25- and 47-Across may be found |
| 31% | SHAZAM | 6 | It may be said with the wave of a hand |
| 31% | PURRS | 5 | What a cat does when it is satisfied |
| 30% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument Ogden Nash referred to when he said, "... reeds are a pain / And the fingering's insane" |
| 30% | CLINE | 5 | The hill was at a sharp in___ and was very steep |
| 30% | APAL | 4 | "Be ___ and just give me a hand here, will you?" |
| 30% | HELEN | 5 | I was the first deaf-blind person to earn a B.A. degree and I campaigned for women's rights |
| 30% | JANE | 4 | I am considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2002 |
| 30% | ELSIE | 5 | Woman's name that becomes a different woman's name when its third and fourth letters are switched |