| 100% | COOKIES | 7 | (5/6) "All that decorating has me tired. A plate of ___ to fuel this jolly old fellow--don't mind if I do! Ho ho ho!" |
| 27% | SAME | 4 | "It's all the ___ to me" ("I don't have a preference") |
| 26% | TOO | 3 | "There's ___ much on my plate," corporate talk for "I have a lot of work to do" |
| 26% | CHEER | 5 | "I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of ___" |
| 25% | NODOFF | 6 | At midnight when I'm still writing clues for the puzzle that absolutely has to be in Florida by 8:00 am, I have a tendency to do this |
| 25% | SCALES | 6 | Thin bony plates that may have covered the skin of a T-Rex |
| 25% | COFFEE | 6 | "Don't talk to me until I've had my ___" (something that might be printed on a mug) |
| 24% | VNECK | 5 | Style of T-shirt that does not have a round collar |
| 24% | SATE | 4 | Word that can fill in the blanks in _ _ T I A _ _ to form a synonym of itself |
| 24% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 24% | IAMBS | 5 | "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" has five of these |
| 24% | LOTTODRAWING | 12 | [aria-label] Depiction of a device that randomly selects numbered balls * This puzzle has an important note. Tap the "i" to read. * |
| 24% | STUPA | 5 | The Great Dagon Pagoda has a gilded one of these that rises to a height of 368 ft. |
| 24% | JOANRIVERS | 10 | Who said "I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage" |
| 24% | CAN | 3 | "I don't know, "___" you?" phrase to correct a student's grammar that you have probably heard from your teacher |
| 24% | TILLYOULOVEME | 13 | Reba McEntire song with the lyric "I guess I can wait if that's what I have to do" |
| 24% | SAMSA | 5 | Kafka protagonist who wonders, “What if I went back to sleep for a while and forgot all this foolishness?” |
| 24% | IMAWARE | 7 | "You don't have to tell me that" |
| 24% | IKNOW | 5 | "You don't have to tell me that!" |
| 24% | IMAWARE | 7 | “You don’t have to tell me that” |
| 24% | ORNOT | 5 | "... guess we don't have to do that" |
| 24% | TAKE | 4 | "Don't have to always be right, let me ___ some of the punches" (lyric from a 2005 song) |
| 23% | BEND | 4 | "I don't know what lies around the ___, but I'm going to believe that the best does," quote from the children's book "Anne of Green Gables" |
| 23% | TON | 3 | "I have a ___ of work to do." (lots) |
| 23% | DREAM | 5 | "Whenever I want you, all I have to do" is this, in an Everly Brothers hit |
| 23% | EAT | 3 | Something you really have to do if you want to live to a ripe old age |
| 23% | PIECE | 5 | *Fall Humor* What did the angry pie say to the plate? "You want a ___ of me?" |
| 23% | AMNESIA | 7 | Problem that crossword constructors can't afford to have, if I remember rightly |
| 23% | LEAVEME | 7 | With 42-Down, "I don't want anything to do with this!" … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 23% | THORN | 5 | Part of a rose that you don't want to touch |