| 100% | MADEAMOVE | 9 | Abandoned the wait-and-see policy |
| 61% | SITTIGHT | 8 | Wait and see |
| 61% | SITSTIGHT | 9 | Waits and sees |
| 59% | VERBS | 5 | Wait and see, e.g. |
| 57% | SITTIGHT | 8 | Wait and see, bide one's time |
| 56% | FORSAKE | 7 | Abandon ... or two words often seen next to the starts of 17-, 27-, 47- and 60-Across |
| 47% | JAMESWAN | 8 | Director of Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring |
| 46% | PROPOUND | 8 | Run up the flagpole and see who salutes |
| 46% | LISA | 4 | "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" novelist ___ See |
| 46% | LISA | 4 | "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" novelist See |
| 45% | MEME | 4 | Image you see over and over on the Internet |
| 45% | SPEAR | 5 | Weapon seen on the flags of Kenya and Swaziland |
| 45% | BOERWAR | 7 | Conflict that saw the sieges of Ladysmith and Kimberley |
| 45% | WHANNELL | 8 | Leigh, star and co-creator of the Saw franchise |
| 45% | VAAN | 4 | Fictional sky pirate created by Yasumi Matsuno and seen in the "Final Fantasy" series |
| 44% | ADS | 3 | Places to see the Geico gecko and the LiMu emu |
| 44% | DRAGONS | 7 | They're seen on the flags of Bhutan and Wales |
| 44% | GTO | 3 | Car seen in the opening scene of "Dazed and Confused" |
| 44% | ALPS | 4 | Mountains seen on the packaging of Toblerone and Swiss Miss |
| 43% | WIT | 3 | "___ and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together": Thomas Fuller |
| 43% | PIERRE | 6 | War and Peace character who sees the Great Comet of 1812 |
| 43% | PETRA | 5 | Abandoned city in Jordan that was "lost" and hidden in the desert for years |
| 43% | IRON | 4 | "___ Man," 1970 song by Black Sabbath about a man who time travels and sees the apocalypse |
| 42% | EEG | 3 | Diagnostic procedure where you might see theta waves and the mu rhythm |
| 42% | BRONC | 5 | Beast you'll likely see at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo |
| 42% | EVIL | 4 | What the three wise monkeys can't see, hear and speak, respectively |
| 42% | THAI | 4 | Cuisine with tom yum soup and the pad see ew noodle dish |
| 42% | CHINA | 5 | Setting of Lisa See's novel "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" |
| 42% | SOUTHERNCROSS | 13 | Constellation seen on the flags of Australia, Samoa and Papua New Guinea |
| 42% | FAN | 3 | "Snow Flower and the Secret ___" (Lisa See novel) |