| 100% | ALDENTE | 7 | How spaghetti should be |
| 64% | ALDENTE | 7 | How spaghetti may be cooked |
| 64% | TIGHTLY | 7 | How seatbelts should be fastened |
| 64% | AS= | 3 | How peers should be treated |
| 62% | SEENBUTNOTHEARD | 15 | How children should be, in a saying |
| 62% | MOIST | 5 | How cigars should be kept, say aficionados |
| 59% | OFF | 3 | How phones should be in a movie theater, ideally |
| 58% | RAW | 3 | How chicken should never be served |
| 56% | ARENT | 5 | Ain't how it should be? |
| 54% | SUGARPLUMFAIRLY | 15 | Bonbon and how it should be divvied up? |
| 53% | SOONEST | 7 | How urgent tasks should be done |
| 53% | UNSAID | 6 | How some things should be left |
| 53% | SOONEST | 7 | How critical tasks should be performed |
| 53% | STACCATO | 8 | How dotted notes should be played |
| 53% | UNSAID | 6 | How some things should be left? |
| 53% | DELI | 4 | How sensitive subjects should be handled |
| 53% | SECURELY | 8 | How sensitive data should be stored |
| 53% | SPORK | 5 | Utensil that should theoretically be perfect for spaghetti soup |
| 50% | CLOSED | 6 | How a mouth should be when eating, per parents |
| 50% | ATBAY | 5 | How an angry dog should be kept |
| 48% | INITSPLACE | 10 | Where everything should be |
| 48% | FUN | 3 | What crosswords should be |
| 46% | ISAS | 4 | "That ___ it should be" |
| 46% | ISAS | 4 | “That ___ it should be!” |
| 46% | NEEDATTENTION | 13 | Should be cleaned up |
| 46% | NATUREISHEALING | 15 | "Things are going back to how they should be" |
| 45% | SIR | 3 | How seven of Canada's prime ministers and six of Great Britain's should have formally been addressed |
| 45% | MARJORIE | 8 | Hit single from 52-Across with the lyrics "I should've asked you how to be" |
| 45% | INBED | 5 | How breakfast may be served ... or how the answers to the eight starred clues should be entered? |
| 45% | ASIT | 4 | Just ___ should be |