| 100% | GEEKED | 6 | Engaged in unabashed nerdiness, with "out" |
| 73% | GEEKOUT | 7 | Engage in unabashed nerdiness |
| 46% | ROPES | 5 | Ins and outs, with "the" |
| 46% | TYINGUP | 7 | Engaging in some B.D.S.M. play with, perhaps |
| 45% | THENEW | 6 | Out with the old, in with __ |
| 44% | NEW | 3 | Out with the old, in with the ___ |
| 44% | OPT | 3 | Word with in or out |
| 43% | AMI | 3 | One to hang out with, in Paris |
| 43% | AMIGO | 5 | Guy you hang out with, in Mexico |
| 42% | BASTE | 5 | Help out with Thanksgiving dinner, in a way |
| 41% | FOOLAROUND | 10 | Engage in some horseplay ... or a hint to the words spelled out in the circles |
| 41% | TABLE | 5 | With 5-Down, it's often shaken out in a diner |
| 41% | SLALOM | 6 | Downhill skiing event with flags to weave in & out |
| 41% | KEVINBACON | 10 | Aptly surnamed star eating out with pals in "Diner" |
| 40% | ESC | 3 | With 67-Down, tool for getting out of a window, in brief |
| 40% | CULDESAC | 8 | Dead end, road with only one way in and out |
| 40% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that came out with a watermelon flavor in 2013 |
| 40% | SPAREKEY | 8 | Leave with a friend in case you get locked out |
| 40% | LADIES | 6 | Pink __ hang out with T Birds in the film Grease |
| 39% | INC | 3 | "Monsters, ___" (Pixar movie with a prequel coming out in June 2013) |
| 39% | YMCA | 4 | Where "you can hang out with all the boys," in song |
| 39% | MARRIEDUP | 9 | Settled down with someone out of one's league, in slang |
| 39% | SOS | 3 | Letters spelled out with rocks on a desert island, in cartoons |
| 39% | CHRIS | 5 | With 35-Across, actor who played Ransom in the 2019 murder mystery "Knives Out" |
| 39% | SNAP | 4 | "___ out of it!" (response to "I'm in love with you," in "Moonstruck") |
| 38% | INDIAMAN | 8 | Sailing ship of the 17th to 19th centuries engaged in trade with the East or West Indies |
| 38% | PEEL | 4 | Leave in a hurry, with "out" |
| 38% | STOMPS | 6 | Leaves in a huff, with "out" |
| 38% | FLESH | 5 | Describe in greater detail, with "out" |
| 38% | PSYCH | 5 | Outwit, in a way, with "out" |