| 100% | HYGIENE | 7 | Basic practices to stay clean and healthy |
| 37% | ADA | 3 | Dentists' organization that promotes clean and healthy smiles: Abbr. |
| 33% | DUSTPAN | 7 | __ and brush, utensils to clean a house |
| 33% | BATH | 4 | Place to lounge and get clean |
| 32% | GYMS | 4 | Places to clean and press |
| 32% | BANDB | 5 | Place to stay, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 32% | PATIENCE | 8 | Restraint needed to stay calm and work steadily |
| 32% | LOYALTY | 7 | Staying true to people, places and things |
| 31% | BALANCE | 7 | The ability to stay upright and not fall over |
| 31% | RUSTINESS | 9 | Patina on metal; to not practice and perform badly |
| 31% | ARCHERY | 7 | It takes a bow and arrow to practice this |
| 31% | ICERINKS | 8 | Places to practice double axels and toe loops: 2 wds. |
| 30% | SIUNITS | 7 | Basic physical measures ... or a hint to 17-, 27-, 48- and 63-Across |
| 30% | OILCHANGE | 9 | Basic auto maintenance, and how each answer to a starred clue was created |
| 30% | REHAB | 5 | Place to get clean and also the title of 16a's signature song |
| 30% | RYE | 3 | Bread that is dense and often considered to be more healthy |
| 29% | MEAT | 4 | ___ and potatoes, phrase used to refer to the most basic aspects of something |
| 29% | OKAPI | 5 | Animal whose tongue is long enough to clean its eyelids and ears |
| 29% | BROOM | 5 | Witch's flying vehicle ... and something used to brush the floor clean |
| 29% | COUNTERARGUMENTS | 16 | "Granite is best because it's heat-resistant and easy to clean" |
| 29% | BOXINGGYM | 9 | Type of place where Rocky and Creed go to practice: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ISHERE | 6 | "Rock and roll ___ to stay" |
| 29% | WISE | 4 | "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and ___" |
| 29% | ELEMENTAL | 9 | A word that means simple and basic, or pertaining to forces of nature |
| 29% | LIQUORLICENSE | 13 | A drink was spilled all over her wallet and she had to ___ clean |
| 29% | SCAM | 4 | “___ Goddess” (Laci Mosley podcast “dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it”) |
| 29% | PAN | 3 | Peter ___, the Neverland boy who stays forever young and refuses to grow up |
| 28% | TOUCHBASE | 9 | Stay in contact, and a hint to the ends of 17-, 24-, 39- and 50-Across |
| 28% | AMAN | 4 | "Early to bed and early to rise makes ___ healthy, wealthy, and wise": 2 wds. |
| 28% | SOAP | 4 | Dirt and stain-cleaning bar essential to keeping the utensils in 33a squeaky clean! |