| 100% | RICH | 4 | "There's one law for the ___ and another for the poor" (idiom with antonyms) |
| 41% | ROTARYJOINT | 11 | There's one between the ulna and the radius |
| 41% | TAXMAN | 6 | Beatles song with the lyric "There's one for you, nineteen for me" |
| 40% | BUREAU | 6 | There's one for the U.S. Census |
| 39% | SMORE | 5 | The first recipe for one was published in "Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts" (1927) |
| 39% | STONE | 5 | There's one, as the expression goes, in 5- and 27-Down |
| 38% | ISS | 3 | There's one every year for Person of the Year: Abbr. |
| 38% | SCI | 3 | Subject with the periodic table and the laws of motion, for short |
| 38% | FILM | 4 | Another word for "movie," and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "pilm" |
| 37% | BRIM | 4 | With deerstalkers, there's usually one in front and one behind |
| 37% | FEEDINGTO | 9 | With 61 Across, giving up another for one's own benefit |
| 37% | SAFE | 4 | (5/5) "Inside, there's a note with a combination key for a ___ (vault). The thief must have seen it and used it to steal the item..." |
| 37% | AUTO | 4 | Prefix with "biography" for the story of one's life |
| 36% | SOLOACTS | 8 | Ones with the motto "One for the road"? |
| 35% | TIGER | 5 | One fear for Dorothy, Scarecrow and the Tin Man |
| 35% | HEARTBREAKERS | 13 | Tom Petty and the ___, "Learning to Fly" band that made music for the film "She's the One" |
| 35% | SEAT | 4 | With 5- and 8-Across, clothing-related idiom for something that's completely improvised |
| 35% | CLARITY | 7 | One of the four C's of diamonds (along with cut, color, and carat) |
| 35% | SHIFT | 5 | With 100-Down, change one's approach, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 35% | MILOS | 5 | Best Director Oscar winner for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus |
| 35% | THEENDISJUST | 12 | With 43-Across, "When one door closes, another door opens," and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | STRIPES | 7 | Another name for the US flag, Stars and __ |
| 35% | FLAG | 4 | The Stars and Stripes, for one |
| 35% | INDEX | 5 | The S&P 500, for one |
| 35% | DOC | 3 | One with the stethoscope, for short |
| 35% | DET | 3 | One with the force, for short |
| 34% | NINA | 4 | One of Columbus's ships, along with the Pinta and the Santa Maria |
| 34% | WATER | 5 | *___ balloon fight, snowball fight alternative for Christmas in July ... and a game one might play with friends in the backyard |
| 34% | CHI | 3 | With 4-Across, another nickname for the Windy City |