| 100% | TAP | 3 | A quiet thump on the door to announce your arrival (rhymes with "map") |
| 38% | ESQ | 3 | Letters on the door to a lawyer's office |
| 35% | EAST | 4 | To the right, on a map |
| 35% | SKATE | 5 | A sport played on the ice; rhymes with plate |
| 34% | EAST | 4 | The right way to go on a map? |
| 34% | PARTY | 5 | Remember the first time you received a birthday ___ (celebration) invite with your name on it and couldn't wait to go? Best. Day. Ever! |
| 34% | DILL | 4 | "Kill ___: Volume 1," swap "Bill" with a rhyming word to get a martial arts film where the Bride takes her revenge on evil pickles |
| 33% | EAST | 4 | Direction usually to the right on a map |
| 33% | ENTER | 5 | Answer to a knock on the door |
| 33% | COIN | 4 | *Response to a knock on the door |
| 33% | ROCKS | 5 | On the ___ (with ice, to a bartender) |
| 33% | BOP | 3 | “___ to the Top” (“High School Musical” song with a rhyming title) |
| 32% | ENTER | 5 | Formal response to a knock on the door |
| 31% | WALLFLOWERS | 11 | Shy sorts, with a hint to the answers on this puzzle's perimeter |
| 31% | DOORBELL | 8 | Ring it to announce your arrival at someone's home |
| 31% | SUNK | 4 | Like a ship on the ocean floor, rhymes with "dunk" |
| 31% | UNDO | 4 | To erase a mistake on the computer, with CTRL + Z |
| 31% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 31% | PRIME | 5 | The best years of your life, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 30% | SNAP | 4 | Photo or video taken on the social media app Snapchat that you may use to keep in touch with your friend |
| 30% | SWORD | 5 | Weapon used for duels and adventures on the high seas that would be a great addition to your "Pirate" Halloween costume |
| 30% | TOP | 3 | With 66-Across, place on a keyboard to find all the letters in 16-, 28-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 30% | YOUR | 4 | With 37- and 39-Across, book and TV series on human evolution, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 30% | MOVIE | 5 | ___ tickets, something you could gift your mom on Mother's Day for a trip to the cinema |
| 30% | FREDDY | 6 | Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts |
| 30% | OUTS | 4 | On the __ with; not speaking to |
| 30% | DOWNONONESNIECE | 15 | On the outs with a relative? |
| 30% | SELFIE | 6 | A self-portrait photo you take on your phone, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2014 |
| 29% | ALEE | 4 | On the sheltered side, to a sailor |
| 29% | ROLL | 4 | With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record ... or the start, middle and end of a word ladder |