| 100% | RECEDE | 6 | About to yield and draw back |
| 57% | RECEDES | 7 | Draws back engineers and yields |
| 45% | CREEP | 5 | Unsettling fellow about to peer back |
| 44% | CHEW | 4 | About to chop and bite |
| 43% | CRUDE | 5 | About to get impolite and coarse |
| 43% | CLOSE | 5 | About to be defeated and shut |
| 43% | ANTI | 4 | Not about to back |
| 42% | RETRY | 5 | About to score and sample once more |
| 42% | COG | 3 | Wheel about to go back |
| 42% | CLEANER | 7 | About to get less fat and more spotless |
| 41% | OSCILLATE | 9 | To move back and forth |
| 40% | PEWTER | 6 | Wept bitterly, about to come back for alloy |
| 39% | RAVE | 4 | To talk about wildly and enthusiastically about |
| 39% | SUBTLE | 6 | To be discreet and avoid drawing attention |
| 38% | LAP | 3 | To the end of the pool and back |
| 38% | TOANDFRO | 8 | Back and forth, from one extreme to another |
| 38% | REPLAN | 6 | Go back to the drawing board |
| 38% | REDO | 4 | Take back to the drawing board |
| 38% | MOON | 4 | "Love you to the ___ and back" |
| 38% | BEDRIDDEN | 9 | Unable to get up and about |
| 38% | ELBOWROOM | 9 | Space and freedom to move about |
| 38% | RECLUSIVE | 9 | Unlikely to be out and about |
| 38% | INBUD | 5 | About to bloom ... or a hint to 20-, 33-, 41- and 52-Across |
| 38% | WAVER | 5 | Go back and forth about a decision |
| 38% | REPEL | 5 | Drive back to see film about parking |
| 38% | REPEL | 5 | Drive back to see film about power |
| 38% | REPELS | 6 | Drives back to see films about parking |
| 38% | RETHINK | 7 | Go back to the drawing board with |
| 38% | SAWS | 4 | They go back and forth to work |
| 38% | SAW | 3 | One going back and forth to work |