| 100% | HASTEMAKESWASTE | 15 | "Slow down and do it right the first time" |
| 46% | TAG | 3 | Remember the first time you won the game and yelled "___! You're IT!" (playground game)? Best. Day. Ever! |
| 43% | PARTY | 5 | Remember the first time you received a birthday ___ (celebration) invite with your name on it and couldn't wait to go? Best. Day. Ever! |
| 42% | SSE | 3 | Down and to the right: Abbr. |
| 41% | WAYNEGRETZKY | 12 | Hockey legend who was the first since Bobby Orr to tally 100+ assists in a season, and did so 11 times: 2 wds. |
| 40% | DAWNEDON | 8 | Realised it for the first time: 2 wds. |
| 40% | BLAZEATRAIL | 11 | Be the first to accomplish something (and do it spectacularly!) |
| 39% | FIGHTCLUB | 9 | The first rule is that you do not talk about it |
| 38% | HEMLINE | 7 | It moves up and down with the fashion |
| 38% | BATHOIL | 7 | It smells nice and goes down the drain |
| 38% | FINI | 4 | It's done in France all the time |
| 38% | SLUG | 4 | Fittingly, it shares the same first two letters with "slow" and "slimy" |
| 38% | FLY | 3 | Spider's prey, or what the first parts of 17- and 62-Across and 9- and 30-Down can do |
| 38% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| 38% | SNL | 3 | Buck Henry was the first to host it five times, briefly |
| 38% | ROW | 3 | It's what you do "gently down the stream" |
| 37% | OKAYOKAY | 8 | ''I heard it the first time!'' |
| 37% | SHE | 3 | "___ did it right there out on the deck / Put her canine teeth in the side of my neck" |
| 37% | KOD | 3 | 38 Down did it 44 times |
| 36% | CREAM | 5 | It can follow the first word of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 36% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |
| 36% | IGOTIT | 6 | "It made sense the first time!" |
| 36% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| 36% | TIMETABLE | 9 | List of activities and the times they'll be done |
| 35% | STARTAFIRE | 10 | Ignite something ... or what the first words of 17-, 23-, 38- and 51-Across do? |
| 35% | TRE | 3 | Italian number whose letters are the first, third and fifth letters of its English equivalent |
| 35% | COMETOREST | 10 | Slow down and stop |
| 35% | COMESTOREST | 11 | Slows down and stops |
| 35% | CELEBRATE | 9 | Kool & the Gang say it's all right to do this |
| 35% | HEAT | 4 | 1995 movie that was the first time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro ever acted together in the same scene |