| 100% | SPECIALS | 8 | Dishes of the day on a menu |
| 64% | SPECIAL | 7 | Dish of the day, at a discounted price |
| 58% | SOLARARC | 8 | The progression of the sun on a given day |
| 57% | ALA | 3 | Words on a menu which means "cooked in the style of": 2 wds. |
| 56% | REMAINS | 7 | “The ___ of the Day” (Oscar-nominated film based on a Kazuo Ishiguro novel) |
| 54% | TSO | 3 | General on the menu of a Chinese restaurant |
| 54% | ALA | 3 | In the style of, on a menu |
| 53% | LAZING | 6 | "___ on a Sunday Afternoon," track by Queen that celebrates the seventh day of the week |
| 53% | TOYS | 4 | Items scattered on the floor of a day-care center |
| 53% | ALA | 3 | "In the style of," on a menu: 2 wds. |
| 53% | ALA | 3 | "In the manner of," on a menu: 2 wds. |
| 52% | GREEN | 5 | Grassy area of the golf course that you would play on during a day of golf |
| 52% | ALA | 3 | In the style of, on a menu: 2 wds. |
| 52% | ALA | 3 | In the manner of, on a menu: 2 wds. |
| 52% | PLATDU | 6 | With 42-Down, restaurant dish of the day |
| 50% | SUNDAE | 6 | Dish named for a day of the week |
| 49% | CATCH | 5 | ___ of the day (special at a seafood restaurant) |
| 49% | USCENSUS | 8 | Once-per-decade count tabulated on the first day of April (and certainly not a prank) |
| 49% | PEAR | 4 | On the first day of Christmas, your true love may send you a partridge in this "poached fruit" tree |
| 49% | BIRTHDAY | 8 | Anniversary of the day a person was born |
| 48% | MOUND | 5 | Pitcher's ___, slight elevation on the baseball ground that you may occupy during a day of playing baseball |
| 48% | SPECIAL | 7 | Dish on a restaurant's blackboard menu |
| 48% | PIP | 3 | One of the dots on a dice |
| 48% | OFF | 3 | One of the positions on a switch |
| 48% | PIP | 3 | One of the dots on a die |
| 48% | NNE | 3 | On a compass, the opposite of SSW |
| 48% | TYPO | 4 | Slip of the fingers on a keyboard |
| 48% | CSNY | 4 | Initials of the supergroup who performed for the very first time on August 16, 1969, only two days before they performed a Woodstock |
| 47% | AMUSED | 6 | Regaled a source of inspiration on the day |
| 47% | LARK | 4 | On a ___ (just for the fun of it) |