| 100% | AVENGE | 6 | Get payback in return for a wrong done to another |
| 43% | RODEO | 5 | Workplace for a clown who in order to get the job done, sometimes has to take the bull by the horns |
| 42% | BASSETT | 7 | Angela —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for What's Love Got to Do With It |
| 40% | MISDIAL | 7 | Get to the wrong party, in a way |
| 38% | RECLINE | 7 | To lie back, in a chair that does it for you |
| 37% | SELLS | 5 | Gets money in return for |
| 37% | SRO | 3 | Like a show that's hard to get tickets for, in brief |
| 37% | EARN | 4 | Get money in return for labour |
| 36% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 35% | TIP | 3 | Money given to waiters in a restaurant in return for a service |
| 34% | DIALM | 5 | What to do "for murder" in a Hitchcock film |
| 34% | SAAR | 4 | Area governed by the League of Nations for 15 years and returned to Germany in a 1935 plebiscite |
| 34% | ABATE | 5 | For a threat to reduce in scope |
| 34% | JUT | 3 | Stick out, like one chair will do when you try to put eleven in a space meant for ten |
| 34% | KNEELED | 7 | Got in position for a proposition |
| 33% | PROUDMARY | 9 | Girl in a Tina Turner song from the soundtrack of "What's Love Got to Do with It": 2 wds. |
| 33% | APPLY | 5 | Something one does to get a job |
| 33% | SNORE | 5 | Bad thing for a roommate to do |
| 33% | BREAK | 5 | Unlucky thing for a mirror to do |
| 33% | SIT | 3 | Ironic thing for a standup to do? |
| 33% | DOCK | 4 | Place for a ship to come in |
| 33% | STY | 3 | Pen for a pig to sleep in |
| 33% | MISHEAR | 7 | Get wrong, in a way |
| 33% | ANNOY | 5 | Get to, in a way |
| 33% | RILE | 4 | Get to, in a way |
| 33% | DEADEND | 7 | A wrong turn in a maze may lead to one |
| 33% | RESEAT | 6 | Move to another location, as in a restaurant |
| 33% | BIRDBATH | 8 | Place for a cardinal to get a drink |
| 33% | ANTE | 4 | What you may do to get a hand |
| 33% | OKAPI | 5 | All right for a detective to get animal |