| 100% | ACCOST | 6 | Approach with aggression |
| 64% | MICRO | 5 | Prefix with aggression |
| 60% | CREPT | 5 | Approached with stealth |
| 60% | STRODEUP | 8 | Approached with confidence |
| 57% | MAKE | 4 | Approach, with "for" |
| 56% | ACCOST | 6 | Approach with a question or remark |
| 56% | MICRO | 5 | Modern prefix with aggression |
| 56% | YANKSON | 7 | Jerks at with aggression |
| 55% | MICRO | 5 | Prefix with aggression or brewery |
| 53% | STEALUP | 7 | Approach furtively, with "on" |
| 53% | SIDLEUP | 7 | Approach furtively, with "to" |
| 53% | SNEAKUP | 7 | Approach stealthily, with "on" |
| 53% | GOWHOLEHOG | 10 | Approach something with gusto |
| 53% | CAME | 4 | With 5-Down, approached |
| 53% | SNUCK | 5 | Approached slyly, with "up" |
| 53% | STRODEUP | 8 | Approached boldly, with "to" |
| 52% | COME | 4 | Approach firm with yours truly |
| 51% | CREEPSUP | 8 | Approaches from behind, with "on" |
| 50% | SNEAKUP | 7 | Approach furtively, with "on" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | STRODEUP | 8 | Approached like John Wayne, with "to" |
| 49% | BECKONING | 9 | Motioning with finger to approach |
| 48% | PANIC | 5 | Feeling with a deadline approaching |
| 47% | FAA | 3 | Org. concerned with the correct approach |
| 47% | NEW | 3 | With 7-Across, its eve is quickly approaching |
| 45% | ICARUS | 6 | Asteroid with the closest approach to the sun |
| 45% | POLEVAULTER | 11 | One concerned with approach, take-off and landing |
| 40% | PUTITDOWN | 9 | Command to a child approaching a white wall with a crayon |
| 40% | SHIFT | 5 | With 100-Down, change one's approach, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 39% | COME | 4 | With 54-Down, approach with a line |
| 37% | FORTUNE | 7 | With 41- and 48-Across, what 56-Across declared while approaching the eruption of 20-Across |