| 100% | YOURSELF | 8 | Don't make __ a mouse, or the cat will eat you |
| 43% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 41% | WHIP | 4 | A long instrument made of rope or leather that you would find in the hands of a lion tamer |
| 41% | RUBBER | 6 | The material that an eraser or a tire are made from |
| 40% | SURFACE | 7 | Erosion is the eating away of a __ or area |
| 40% | CORE | 4 | Part of a big apple that the squirrels and crows will eat, even if you don't |
| 39% | STANDING | 8 | Don't cut the bough you are __ on |
| 39% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 39% | MOUSE | 5 | It might be under the paw of a cat ... or a computer user |
| 38% | SCENE | 5 | "Don't make a ___" ("Please be cool") |
| 38% | ABRACADABRA | 11 | "The spell is cast! Don't blink or you'll miss it …" (go to 15-Down) |
| 37% | SHOES | 5 | The T.S.A. makes you remove them |
| 37% | ROW | 3 | You don't want to be in the last one |
| 37% | ONUS | 4 | A responsibility or load to bear. "The ___ is on you" |
| 37% | BEAR | 4 | *Make your Gingerbread village* Animal shape for a "gummy" candy that you will need to make the forest |
| 37% | SCENE | 5 | "Don't make a ___" ("Calm down, people are watching") |
| 36% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| 36% | TAILINGOFF | 10 | Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle |
| 36% | YOUHADTOBETHERE | 15 | "It was even funnier at the time," or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 36% | STRANGER | 8 | A person you don't know; __ Things the TV series |
| 36% | PETTING | 7 | Making a fuss of a dog or cat |
| 35% | TONGUE | 6 | A word you can't remember will be on the tip of it |
| 35% | THEMAN | 6 | Taylor Swift song with the lyric "Every conquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you" |
| 35% | THATGUY | 7 | Fellow you don't want to be, in a phrase |
| 35% | AROUNDTHECORNER | 15 | Make a left or right and you're there |
| 35% | AWAY | 4 | "When the cat's ___, the mice will play" |
| 35% | STEM | 4 | Part of a cherry you don't eat |
| 35% | SCENES | 6 | People who are apoplectic don't really care if they make a few of these or not |
| 34% | WHATSTHEBIGDEAL | 15 | "Why are you making such a fuss?" … or a hint to 17-, 36- and 43-Across |
| 34% | REPLICATE | 9 | Make or be a copy of |