| 100% | ETAL | 4 | Common abbreviation that seems to indicate that no one cares about the fifth or sixth authors |
| 27% | RANDO | 5 | That guy at a party whom no one seems to know |
| 27% | WHEREARIGHTTOKNOW | 17 | Common query from one about to leave the house |
| 26% | LOWINTERESTLOAN | 15 | Mortgage no one cares about? |
| 25% | THATSRICH | 9 | "You're one to talk!," or what can be said about the answers to the starred clues |
| 25% | TMI | 3 | "No one wants to hear about that!" |
| 24% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ___ or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 24% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ... or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 24% | BALL | 4 | Keep one's eye on the ___, phrase that's common in multiple sports that means to give attention to one's current task |
| 24% | GONDWANA | 8 | Supercontinent that covered about one fifth of the Earth about three hundred million years ago |
| 24% | HOMEALONE | 9 | 1990 film that Roger Ebert called "so implausible that it makes it hard for us to really care about the plight of the kid" |
| 24% | NASTYFALL | 9 | Trip that no one wants to take |
| 24% | TIME | 4 | ___ travel, superpower common to Marvel's Doctor Strange and DC's Flash that allows them to visit the past or future |
| 24% | END | 3 | "The ___," words that prompt one to leave the theater |
| 24% | STASH | 5 | Supply that no one's supposed to find |
| 23% | TIME | 4 | "The ___ Machine," HG Wells' post-apocalyptic novella that's now also a hypothetical machine that can take one to the past or future |
| 23% | ROFL | 4 | Texter's abbreviation to indicate that something's very funny |
| 23% | SILENTT | 7 | Feature of your mortgage that no one ever speaks about |
| 23% | EYES | 4 | Parts of the Mona Lisa that seem to follow you |
| 23% | SEGUE | 5 | Subtly change the topic so that no one really notices |
| 23% | EYES | 4 | Parts of the "Mona Lisa" that seem to follow the viewer |
| 23% | SLEEP | 5 | Activity that seems to pass in the blink of an eye |
| 23% | EYES | 4 | Parts of the "Mona Lisa" that seem to follow you around |
| 23% | ATTN | 4 | Abbreviation that indicates who a memo is addressed to |
| 22% | EMO | 3 | Genre of the song "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" |
| 22% | BURN | 4 | "Hamilton" song about destroying love letters, or what one can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 22% | HOME | 4 | There's no place like it ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 22% | DOC | 3 | The mysterious personage that Bugs always seems to be addressing |
| 22% | OMG | 3 | Text abbreviation that indicates the same thing as "!!!" |
| 22% | SPF | 3 | Letters one might care about in the summer |