| 100% | PETTY | 5 | Eager to create drama out of the smallest things |
| 39% | AWAKE | 5 | Out of the arms of Morpheus, so to speak |
| 39% | THAW | 4 | Take out of the freezer to defrost |
| 39% | WITHDRAW | 8 | To take money out of the bank |
| 38% | THAW | 4 | Take out of the freezer to warm up |
| 38% | GAS | 3 | Bad thing to run out of in the middle of nowhere |
| 37% | ORES | 4 | Things picked out of the earth |
| 37% | WAR | 3 | What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | ARUNDHATI | 9 | __ Roy, Indian writer of The God of Small Things |
| 37% | EXHAUSTFUN | 10 | Run out of amusing things to do? |
| 37% | STREAKERS | 9 | Ones running out of things to wear? |
| 37% | COME | 4 | The shape of things to ___ |
| 36% | OFFTOAFASTSTART | 15 | Quick out of the blocks, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 36% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 36% | DONE | 4 | Ready to be taken out of the oven |
| 36% | MUDROOM | 7 | Where to come in out of the rain |
| 36% | MINI | 4 | Smaller version of the same thing |
| 36% | LYINGLOW | 8 | Keeping out of view, waiting for drama to pass |
| 36% | ZOETROPE | 8 | Device that spins to create the illusion of motion |
| 36% | MATRIX | 6 | To get out of the __ choose the red pill |
| 36% | TACT | 4 | Sense of the right thing to do |
| 35% | SURVIVES | 8 | Gets out of danger and lives to tell the tale |
| 35% | KISSCURL | 8 | Small sweep of hair pressed to the forehead |
| 35% | ERR | 3 | Thing to do on the side of caution |
| 35% | DIG | 3 | Get to the bottom of things? |
| 35% | SETTLING | 8 | Getting to the bottom of things? |
| 35% | DIGS | 4 | Gets to the bottom of things? |
| 35% | AID | 3 | Come to the ___ of (help out) |
| 35% | BOTTOM | 6 | Get to the ___ of (figure out) |
| 35% | CROSS | 5 | Out of sorts ... or what completes the answers to the nine starred clues |