| 100% | HALE | 4 | I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country speaker |
| 90% | HALE | 4 | Nathan who said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" |
| 73% | REGRET | 6 | "That I have but one life to lose for my country," to Hale |
| 37% | EARTHA | 6 | Kitt who said, "A man comes into my life and I have to compromise? You must think about that one again" |
| 31% | SPELL | 5 | Something I do daily that I have my own checker for |
| 30% | WHINE | 5 | "Do I have to?," for one |
| 30% | ETA | 3 | Greek vowel that I have 1443 definitions for in my crossword database |
| 29% | SAHL | 4 | Satirist who said "If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job" |
| 29% | FLAMINGOS | 9 | The __, group that sang I Only Have Eyes For You |
| 29% | SAHL | 4 | Political satirist who said "If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job" |
| 28% | STENGEL | 7 | "The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed" speaker |
| 27% | CANIHAVEYOURS | 13 | "Excuse me, I seem to have lost my phone number — ...?" |
| 27% | EVER | 4 | “Favour my solemn song, for I have loved / Thee ___, and thee only”: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 27% | LIE | 3 | “I’d love to, but I already have plans that day,” sometimes |
| 27% | WHITEKNUCKLE | 12 | Like a ride that has one holding on for dear life |
| 27% | MUG | 3 | One might read "Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee" |
| 27% | ASHIP | 5 | Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?” |
| 26% | PANAMA | 6 | Country that issued its only banknotes in 1941, only to have them withdrawn several days later |
| 26% | JUNO | 4 | Comedy/drama that lost the Best Picture Oscar to "No Country for Old Men" |
| 26% | BLOG | 4 | Publication that usually has only one contributor |
| 25% | DIZZY | 5 | "I had to stop driving my car for a while, the tires got ___": Steven Wright |
| 25% | STRIP | 5 | Game that everyone but one person barely loses? |
| 25% | RHETT | 5 | "I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands" speaker |
| 25% | COFFEE | 6 | "Don't talk to me until I've had my ___" (something that might be printed on a mug) |
| 25% | COMRADESUNITE | 13 | "___ wasn't my first choice for a title, but no one other than me liked Quit Yer Stalin" |
| 25% | NATURALGAS | 10 | Trinidad and Tobago resource that has led to it be one of the richest western countries per capita |
| 25% | OATH | 4 | “I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God,” for one |
| 25% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 25% | TOOTH | 5 | John Lennon had one that sold for more than $31,000 at a 2011 auction (fittingly, to a dentist!) |
| 24% | FELON | 5 | One who has life to look forward to? |