| 100% | UPS | 3 | "We've all had our ___ and downs" |
| 75% | UPS | 3 | "We've had our ___ and downs" |
| 57% | OMOO | 4 | Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" |
| 57% | ADDTO | 5 | "...and to ___ all our misery, we had a flat tire" (make worse): 2 wds. |
| 53% | HAD | 3 | "We've ___ our ups and downs" |
| 46% | TIDAL | 5 | Having ups and downs, in a way |
| 45% | NAME | 4 | We all have one |
| 45% | PAST | 4 | We all have one |
| 44% | MARS | 4 | Place that Carl Sagan called "a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our earthly hopes and fears" |
| 44% | YOYO | 4 | It has ups and downs |
| 43% | SEESAW | 6 | Up and down we go in the park |
| 43% | DIDNT | 5 | "__ We Almost Have It All" |
| 42% | WHYNOTBOTH | 10 | "Let's have our cake and eat it, too!" |
| 42% | NOBITE | 6 | All bark and __; having lots to say |
| 42% | ERIE | 4 | Where Oliver Hazard Perry said "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" |
| 42% | MONTPELIER | 10 | This US State Capital has the smallest population of them all and doesn't even have a McDonald's |
| 41% | LEE | 3 | " . . . and Jamie ___, you are all of us!" |
| 41% | PERFECTPITCH | 12 | Something the eight people at 3-, 9-, 28- and 30-Down have all strived for? |
| 41% | LOVEISLOVE | 10 | "We all deserve to have our intimate relationships honored," redundantly |
| 40% | BACKTOSQUAREONE | 15 | “Guess we have to start all over” |
| 40% | BEHOLD | 6 | "Lo and ___!" ("Look what we have here!") |
| 40% | ONCE | 4 | "Let us settle this ___ and for all" |
| 40% | ONCE | 4 | "Let us settle it, ___ and for all" |
| 40% | PAST | 4 | We've all been there |
| 40% | ASHES | 5 | "...___! We all fall down!" ("Ring Around the Rosie" lyrics) |
| 40% | FARFROMIDEAL | 12 | Not at all what we had hoped for |
| 40% | PISMO | 5 | "__ Beach and all the clams we can eat!" |
| 40% | TOPDOLLAR | 9 | Highest price, and what five Down answers have |
| 39% | WAYS | 4 | "We have our ___" |
| 39% | AFAR | 4 | "Our deeds still travel with us from ___, / And what we have been makes us what we are": George Eliot |