| 100% | ASPIRE | 6 | Have as a goal, with "to" |
| 73% | SHOOTFOR | 8 | Have as a goal |
| 73% | AIMSAT | 6 | Has as a goal |
| 73% | SHOTFOR | 7 | Had as a goal |
| 73% | ASPIRESTO | 9 | Has as a goal |
| 73% | AIMSTO | 6 | Has as a goal |
| 70% | INTEND | 6 | To have something in mind as a goal |
| 69% | ASPIRETO | 8 | Have as a lofty goal |
| 60% | INTEND | 6 | Have in mind as a goal |
| 60% | ABUT | 4 | To have a common boundary with |
| 60% | PRY | 3 | To ___ open, as with a crowbar |
| 59% | OUST | 4 | To remove forcibly, as with a dictator |
| 59% | PRY | 3 | To open something slightly, as with a crowbar |
| 58% | BRIDAL | 6 | Having to do with a groom's female partner |
| 58% | BONE | 4 | "I have a ___ to pick with you!" |
| 58% | SOUPS | 5 | Hot things to have with a cold |
| 58% | BONE | 4 | "I have a ____ to pick with you" |
| 58% | MASH | 4 | Reduce to a pulp, as with potato |
| 58% | ESCORTS | 7 | Goes with, as to a school dance |
| 58% | HURLAT | 6 | Try to hit, as with a snowball |
| 57% | BRIDAL | 6 | Anything having to do with a bride |
| 57% | LOGON | 5 | Visit, as a site, with "to" |
| 57% | ASKIN/OUT | 9 | Welcome, as a visitor / Try to make a date with |
| 57% | TACO | 4 | With 42-Across, time to have a folded Mexican food |
| 57% | ERASE | 5 | To rub out, as with the back of a pencil |
| 56% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| 56% | STARRED | 7 | To have appeared as the lead in a movie or play |
| 56% | CROQUET | 7 | Alice had to play it with flamingos as mallets |
| 56% | LASES | 5 | Hits with a beam, as to remove a tattoo |
| 56% | REVALUES | 8 | Pegs to a new number, as with a currency |