| 100% | ACE | 3 | "The place with the helpful hardware folks," according to an ad jingle |
| 68% | ACE | 3 | "___ is the place with the helpful hardware folks" (ad jingle) |
| 64% | ACE | 3 | "___ is the place with the helpful hardware folks" (hardware store jingle) |
| 64% | ACE | 3 | "___ is the place with the helpful hardware folks" (retailer's jingle) |
| 55% | ACE | 3 | Store that calls itself the place with "the helpful hardware folks" |
| 42% | ACE | 3 | Blackjack card, or the chain "with the helpful hardware folks" |
| 37% | INASHOE | 7 | Where an old woman with too many children lived, according to the nursery rhyme: 3 wds. |
| 37% | WHERETHE | 8 | With 43-Across, an exciting place, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 36% | AMC | 3 | Movie chain with an ad in which Nicole Kidman says "We come to this place for magic" |
| 33% | HAY | 3 | One can make this while the sun shines, according to an idiom |
| 33% | STARTREK | 8 | TV show with the most spinoffs, according to the Guinness Book |
| 33% | CANADA | 6 | Place associated with the answers to the starred clues |
| 33% | ENCLOSED | 8 | Placed in an envelope along with the cover letter |
| 32% | LEOPARD | 7 | According to Isaiah, it "shall lie down with the kid" |
| 32% | EUROPE | 6 | Continent with 44 countries, according to the UN |
| 32% | ASIA | 4 | Continent with 48 countries, according to the UN |
| 32% | SOLARA | 6 | Sporty Toyota introduced to compete with the Honda Accord |
| 32% | RANCH | 5 | Dressing that gets top place on the most popular list according to the Association for Dressings and Sauces |
| 31% | WINS | 4 | What he who dies with the most toys does, according to a bumper sticker |
| 31% | GEHENNA | 7 | Place near Jerusalem where, according to the Hebrew Bible, children were sacrificed |
| 31% | GETUP | 5 | “What’s with the ___?” (question to a friend in an unusual outfit) |
| 31% | BAEZ | 4 | Folk singer Joan who wrote the memoir "And A Voice to Sing With" |
| 31% | ICET | 4 | Artist with the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker |
| 31% | ARP | 3 | "Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 31% | LUCY | 4 | One in the sky with diamonds, according to a Beatles song |
| 31% | WANG | 4 | First computer company to run an ad during the Super Bowl |
| 31% | IMNOTHERE | 9 | Message whispered to someone on the phone with an obnoxious caller |
| 31% | JIMTHORPE | 9 | The Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century, according to an ABC Wide World of Sports poll in 2001: 2 wds. |
| 31% | CYNICS | 6 | People who know "the price of everything, and the value of nothing," according to an Oscar Wilde play |
| 30% | CAESARSALAD | 11 | Entree meant to be eaten with the fingers, according to its creator |