| 100% | SMELLSGOOD | 10 | “Whatever you’re up to in the kitchen, keep doing it!” |
| 50% | WHOSGOINGTOKNOW | 15 | *"If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. ___?" |
| 49% | TAP | 3 | You turn it to dispense water in the kitchen |
| 47% | USEIT | 5 | "It's in the Way That You" do this, to Clapton |
| 47% | BREADBIN | 8 | Where in the kitchen to keep baked yeasty products |
| 46% | ASK | 3 | "I sort of hate to ___ it, but do you have a basket?" (rhyming question from Little Red in "Into the Woods") |
| 46% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 44% | SCOURER | 7 | Use it in the kitchen to scrub pans clean |
| 44% | SPEEDCHESS | 10 | It requires you to pick up the pieces fast |
| 44% | EGGTIMER | 8 | It might wind up in the kitchen |
| 44% | BELL | 4 | "The ___ doesn't dismiss you, I do!" phrase to keep students in class until the lesson is over that you have probably heard from your teacher |
| 43% | STEAL | 5 | Jackie Robinson did it to reach home in the '55 World Series |
| 43% | LOTION | 6 | "Did you hear about the poet who liked to dip his work in moisturizer? It was poetry in ___" |
| 43% | STOP | 4 | (2/6) "Once you're done, you press the ___ button that has a tiny square on it, to finish recording." |
| 42% | STARTOVER | 9 | It may be the best thing to do when you're stuck |
| 42% | SKI | 3 | In the movie "A View to a Kill", Bond did this once his snowmobile was blown up |
| 42% | ALARM | 5 | It wakes you up in the morning |
| 41% | SEEINGSTARS | 11 | In pain, and what you're doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down |
| 41% | SCARF | 5 | It can come up to your neck in the winter |
| 41% | LISTEN | 6 | You don't have to face the music to do it |
| 40% | FIRECODE | 8 | You're supposed to build up to it |
| 40% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who plays Tina Turner in the music biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | MOTH | 4 | It's bad to keep in the closet |
| 40% | AYE | 3 | Word that keeps the same meaning if you move its first letter to the end |
| 40% | PEDAL | 5 | What it's harder to do on an exercise bike when you increase the resistance |
| 40% | MINT | 4 | "What did the tic-tacs say when they fell in love? It was ___ to be" |
| 39% | TINATURNER | 10 | Singer played by Angela Bassett in the 1993 musical biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 39% | EARN | 4 | ___ your stripes (prove you're up to the challenge) |
| 39% | TABOOOPERATION | 14 | Something you're not allowed to do in math? |
| 39% | SAYUNCLE | 8 | Give up, or what you might do before the starts of the answers to starred clues |