| 100% | ARMADILLO | 9 | “If you should ever choose / To bathe an ___, / Use one bar of soap / And a whole lot of hope / And seventy-two pads of Brillo”: Shel Silverstein |
| 24% | PASS | 4 | Mana, which you might use if driving to Tibet from Ghastoli, is a pretty impressive one of these |
| 24% | NADERITE | 8 | One with an "If You Choose the Lesser of Two Evils — You Are Still Choosing Evil" bumper sticker, perhaps |
| 23% | ABE | 3 | One of two presidents between a James and an Andrew |
| 23% | YEA | 3 | Positive vote that would be a unit of time if you added an R to the end |
| 23% | ERG | 3 | Unit of work that becomes a word meaning "thus" if you add an O to the end |
| 23% | CRIBBAGE | 8 | Game of cards for two to four players using a board with pegs and holes for scoring |
| 23% | MANUGINOBILI | 12 | NBA star from Argentina who is one of only two players to win a EuroLeague title, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal (2 wds.) |
| 22% | MICCHECKS | 9 | Utterances of "One, two, one, two," and a phonetic clue to four features of this puzzle |
| 22% | PEN | 3 | James Bond uses a modified one to melt the iron bars of his cell in Octopussy |
| 21% | GREETINGS | 9 | Part two of a way to wish loved ones during Christmas and New Years |
| 21% | NOB | 3 | One of wealth and standing in Britain ... and a word that can be slangily used to refer to one's "head" |
| 21% | FELONY | 6 | For a class E one of these you could get up to 5 years and a $250,000 fine |
| 21% | HAIRBAND | 8 | Use one of these to tie a ponytail |
| 21% | USTED | 5 | "If you ever speak to me in Spanish, please use the formal ___" (Parks and Recreation quote) |
| 21% | LATHERER | 8 | One using lots of soap |
| 21% | HAND | 4 | Body part with fingers ... and something one uses to brush off imaginary dust from their shoulder in a gesture of confidence |
| 21% | DACTYL | 6 | A poetic unit of one long and two short syllables |
| 21% | EDGEWISE | 8 | One way to get a word in ... and an aural hint to a feature of the starred clues' answers |
| 21% | CARSALES | 8 | Events offering a whole lot to choose from? |
| 21% | COMMA | 5 | English language punctuation that looks like , and is used to separate two parts of a sentence or two items on a list |
| 21% | SHAMPOO | 7 | It might be next to a bar of soap |
| 21% | BALLOONIST | 10 | One using a lot of hot air |
| 20% | NEON | 4 | Let's go to the 1980s! What will you see here? You will see a lot of this bright shade used for clothes |
| 20% | IDEA | 4 | Using a CFL bulb to represent one of these instead of an incandescent bulb might be a great one in itself! |
| 20% | SLIPPERY | 8 | Describes a wet bar of soap, ice, or an eel |
| 20% | STAIRS | 6 | A whole "case" of steps to take you between floors |
| 20% | DOUBLEPARK | 10 | Leave one's vehicle in a traffic lane, and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 20% | STRAW | 5 | If you use one, you're a sucker |
| 20% | BRA | 3 | One piece of a two-piece bathing suit |