| 100% | WANT | 4 | "You have to give the people what they ___" | 
| 55% | EMPLOY | 6 | To give someone a job, to have them work for you | 
| 54% | TANKTOP | 7 | What gives you the right to bare arms? | 
| 53% | UTTER | 5 | Give voice to what you have to say | 
| 52% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across | 
| 51% | STOKE | 5 | What people had to do to keep the "Mauretania" running | 
| 51% | EARTH | 5 | What you might "come down to" after having your head in the clouds | 
| 51% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? | 
| 50% | NEEDS | 5 | You have to meet them! | 
| 50% | EXAMS | 5 | You have to study for them | 
| 50% | CIVILLAW | 8 | What someone tries to use when they yell, "I'll sue the pants off you!" | 
| 49% | OWE | 3 | When you have to give someone something, such as money | 
| 48% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across | 
| 48% | EGGS | 4 | You have to break them to make an omelet | 
| 47% | REINS | 5 | What you'll have to get hold of to ride the "one-horse open sleigh" | 
| 47% | EGOIDEAL | 8 | The person you want to be | 
| 46% | REWRAP | 6 | Prepare to give what you received? | 
| 45% | RUB | 3 | What they'll do to you at Massage Envy | 
| 45% | EERIER | 6 | More likely to give you the willies | 
| 45% | KEY | 3 | "Do you have the ___ to this locker?" | 
| 45% | SNAKE | 5 | Classic arcade game where you have to avoid colliding with the wall | 
| 45% | LOVELETTERS | 11 | What you have to do to be a crossword fan? | 
| 44% | MIMES | 5 | They give people the silent treatment? | 
| 44% | DRS | 3 | They give you the treatment: Abbr. | 
| 44% | EARS | 4 | What the walls have, they say | 
| 44% | CNBC | 4 | What may give you the business? | 
| 44% | PIN | 3 | What you have to remember to use an A.T.M. | 
| 44% | RENEW | 5 | Have more People come to the house? | 
| 44% | YOGACLASS | 9 | What people go to the mat for | 
| 44% | ERRANDS | 7 | They'll give you the run-around |