| 100% | OVERHEATS | 9 | Breaks down on the road due to lack of coolant |
| 60% | OVERHEAT | 8 | Break down due to lack of coolant, as an auto |
| 40% | ATROPHY | 7 | Wasting muscle mass due to the lack of use |
| 38% | HANGRY | 6 | Cranky due to lack of food |
| 38% | SWIPELEFT | 9 | Express lack of interest on Tinder ... or a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 37% | WIZ | 3 | Ease on down the road to him |
| 37% | GANGRENE | 8 | Tissue death due to lack of blood flow |
| 37% | RUIN | 4 | On the road to ___ (doing badly) |
| 36% | MANDALAY | 8 | Former capital of Burma, on the road to it perhaps |
| 36% | WILTING | 7 | Becoming weak due to lack of water or food |
| 36% | PULLTHEPIN | 10 | End a project due to lack of funding, say |
| 36% | RUIN | 4 | On the road to ___ (doing very badly) |
| 36% | SCURVY | 6 | Disease common in pirates due to lack of vitamin C |
| 35% | VERGE | 5 | On the __ of; coming close to |
| 35% | CUSP | 4 | On the ___ of (very close to) |
| 34% | THEATRE | 7 | A series of "insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster," per Tom Stoppard |
| 34% | FRETBOARD | 9 | Where fingers press down on the neck of a guitar |
| 34% | SOFTENUP | 8 | Break down the resistance of, as a customer |
| 33% | FORT | 4 | & 8A Town in Highland, Scotland, on the Road to the Isles |
| 33% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 33% | CAMBER | 6 | Curvature on the surface of a road |
| 33% | SEASICK | 7 | Queasy due to the motion of the ocean |
| 33% | DUMPED | 6 | Discarded, left on the side of the road |
| 33% | INNS | 4 | Stops on the side of the road, maybe |
| 33% | UMBILICALACCORD | 15 | Agreement on the ratio of innies to outies? |
| 33% | SKID | 4 | To lose traction on the road |
| 33% | OUTSIDE | 7 | On or to the exterior of |
| 32% | SIDESWIPE | 9 | Glancing blow on the road, and a hint to the puzzle's circles |
| 32% | SIDEHUSTLE | 10 | *Pop-up shop on the edge of the road? |
| 32% | TOWED | 5 | My car broke down and was ___ to the junkyard |