| 100% | NAILBITER | 9 | Contest that goes down to the last second: Hyph. |
| 44% | MINI | 4 | Skirt that doesn't go down to the knees |
| 44% | ALL | 3 | Down to the last drop |
| 43% | DIVERT | 6 | Go down to the right to distract |
| 43% | IMUST | 5 | "__ go down to the seas again": Masefield |
| 42% | SLID | 4 | Went down to second? |
| 42% | GETOUTOFHERE | 12 | "Shoo!," and an instruction that goes with the last words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 40% | MASEFIELD | 9 | Writer of "I must go down to the seas again" |
| 40% | WIRE | 4 | Down to the ___ (until the very last moment) |
| 39% | WIRE | 4 | "Down to the ___," common phrase meaning "until the last minute," that has its origins in horse racing |
| 39% | CREWSOCKS | 9 | Pair that goes up to the calves |
| 38% | WHIPPINGPOST | 12 | 1969 song written by the late Gregg Allman that begins, "I've been run down and I've been lied to" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | FINALIST | 8 | Player who makes it to the last round of a contest |
| 38% | YOYO | 4 | Toy that goes up and down: Hyph. |
| 38% | YOYO | 4 | Plaything that goes up and down: Hyph. |
| 38% | YOYOS | 5 | Toys that go up and down: Hyph. |
| 37% | DEARSANTA | 9 | Line that goes to the North Pole? |
| 37% | PEDI | 4 | Salon treatment that goes to the dogs? |
| 37% | TAXES | 5 | Paycheck deductions that go to the government |
| 36% | TIBIA | 5 | Bone that goes from the knee to the ankle |
| 36% | APPROACH | 8 | Type of golf shot that goes to the green |
| 36% | UPWARDS | 7 | Going in the opposite direction to down |
| 36% | YOYO | 4 | Toy that goes up and down on a string: Hyph. |
| 36% | DIAGONAL | 8 | Line that goes from one corner to the opposite one |
| 36% | PET | 3 | Animal that goes to the vet and rhymes with "vet" |
| 36% | SLEEP | 5 | Go out second to get the French record |
| 36% | CLAPPERS | 8 | Going like the __, idiom that refers to bells |
| 36% | DEVIL | 5 | "The ___ Went Down to Georgia" |
| 35% | ROAD | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What can go up and down without moving?" |
| 35% | NVSRO | 5 | The five letters that switch to yield the contest answer |