| 100% | LIFE | 4 | "What happens to us while we are making other plans," per Allen Saunders |
| 61% | LIFE | 4 | What happens to you while you're busy making other plans, per "Beautiful Boy" |
| 56% | LIFE | 4 | “What happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” per John Lennon |
| 44% | LIFE | 4 | What happens while you're busy making other plans, it's said |
| 41% | STARSTUFF | 9 | What we are made of, per Carl Sagan |
| 35% | HAY | 3 | What to make while the sun shines, per an old proverb |
| 34% | ELIOT | 5 | She wrote, "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" |
| 31% | THE | 3 | There are many ___ories about what happened to the dinosaurs |
| 31% | TAKEOUTTHETRASH | 15 | What to do before the answers to the starred clues will make sense |
| 30% | ANYWAY | 6 | “Back to what we were talking about . . .” |
| 30% | FATE | 4 | What is destined to happen |
| 30% | LIEINIT | 7 | What to do once you've made your bed, per a saying |
| 30% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 29% | ART | 3 | "Not what you see, but what you make others see," per Degas |
| 29% | NAMES | 5 | They belong to us but are only used by others |
| 29% | BURNER | 6 | What might be used to make bad calls? |
| 29% | PREDICTS | 8 | Foretells what is going to happen |
| 29% | EACH | 4 | "We were made for ___ other" |
| 29% | PHONEHOME | 9 | What E.T. wanted to do while on Earth, per the 1982 movie |
| 29% | SMOG | 4 | Fog that is made worse due to smoke and other pollutants |
| 28% | FORESIGHT | 9 | The ability to predict what will happen |
| 28% | HOLDTHEFLOOR | 12 | What to do while the joists are being installed as you yatter on unendingly? |
| 28% | OBAMA | 5 | US president who is distantly related to 6 other presidents and Winston Churchill, too |
| 28% | WAIT | 4 | "Please ___ while we prepare your order." (Barista's request to be patient) |
| 28% | RACISM | 6 | What excellence is the best deterrent to, per Oprah Winfrey |
| 28% | WEATHERBALLOON | 14 | What a U.F.O. might turn out to be |
| 28% | FATE | 4 | Destiny, what is mapped out to happen, perhaps |
| 28% | PITABREAD | 9 | What meat is wrapped in to make a gyro: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ABLE | 4 | "Will you be ___ to join us?" ("Can you make it?") |
| 28% | OURS | 4 | ''It is thinking that makes what we read __'': Locke |