| 100% | BETTER | 6 | How Shawn Mendes wanted to Treat You in 2016 |
| 35% | AHEAD | 5 | How one might want to stay in an impeachment inquiry |
| 35% | ELEVEN | 6 | You want to roll a seven or __ in craps |
| 35% | GETAROOM | 8 | "Nobody wants to watch you making out in public!" |
| 34% | ILL | 3 | "You want to stay in bed all day when you are ___" |
| 34% | ALIENEGG | 8 | You usually don't want this to hatch in space |
| 34% | WORKLOAD | 8 | How busy you are in your job from day to day |
| 33% | INME | 4 | How I might want you to believe or trust |
| 33% | PASTTENSE | 9 | You wouldn't want to be in this! |
| 33% | GOAL | 4 | Something you want to accomplish in the future |
| 32% | NICEANDSLOW | 11 | How Usher wants to take it in a 1998 #1 hit |
| 32% | LIE | 3 | You wouldn't want to be caught in one |
| 32% | TEA | 3 | How do you invite a dinosaur to a cafe? "Do you want some ___, Rex?" |
| 32% | NEEDLE | 6 | You wouldn't want to lose one in a haystack |
| 32% | ROW | 3 | You don't want to be in the last one |
| 32% | FYI | 3 | "Just wanted you to know" in text: Abbr. |
| 32% | INALIE | 6 | How you wouldn't want to be caught |
| 31% | ABOMB | 5 | What U2 told you how to dismantle in their 2004 studio album, briefly |
| 31% | COOKIEJAR | 9 | You don't want to be caught with your hand in one |
| 31% | ANYADVICE | 9 | "Want to tell me how you'd handle this?" |
| 31% | ONME | 4 | ''My turn to treat you all'' |
| 30% | FRENCH | 6 | Language in which you'll need to know how to pronounce two three-letter words |
| 30% | SUSHI | 5 | What you wouldn't want to miss in Japan |
| 30% | CAMO | 4 | What you don't want to be spotted in |
| 30% | CAMO | 4 | Garb you don't want to be seen in |
| 30% | CAMO | 4 | Pattern you don't want to be seen in |
| 30% | OUTOFSORTS | 10 | Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 30% | DREAM | 5 | "Whenever I want you, all I have to do" is this, in an Everly Brothers hit |
| 30% | THATGUY | 7 | Fellow you don't want to be, in a phrase |
| 30% | ANTS | 4 | Workers you wouldn't want to see in the office? |