| 100% | TECHNICAL | 9 | Involving a lot of difficult or involved processes |
| 57% | DEMANDING | 9 | Very difficult or requiring a lot of effort |
| 54% | SLEEPLESS | 9 | Involving a lot of tossing, perhaps |
| 52% | USHER | 5 | Job that involves a lot of sweating |
| 52% | BLACKJ | 6 | Activity that involves a lot of hits |
| 52% | PINGPONG | 8 | It involves a lot of back-and-forth |
| 52% | MIL | 3 | A lot of bucks ... or the Bucks, briefly |
| 51% | MONTYHAUL | 9 | Name for gameplay that involves a lot of loot |
| 51% | RISOTTO | 7 | Creamy dish that usually involves a lot of stirring |
| 51% | STREAK | 6 | A lot of consecutive wins or losses |
| 51% | MANICURIST | 10 | Job that involved a lot of cutting, filing and painting |
| 50% | LIT | 3 | English ___ (college course that involves a lot of reading, for short) |
| 49% | ACRO | 4 | Prefix with "yoga" to mean the practice that involves a lot of lifting |
| 48% | URBAN | 5 | Like a lot of Los Angeles or Las Vegas |
| 48% | UNHEALTHY | 9 | Like heavily processed foods with a lot of added sugar |
| 48% | TOREADORS | 9 | Those whose jobs involve dealing with a lot of bull? |
| 45% | DIEL | 4 | Denoting or involving a period of twenty four hours |
| 45% | PIE | 3 | Have a finger in every ___ (be involved in a lot of things) |
| 45% | SALSA | 5 | Type of dip, or a dance involving dips |
| 45% | MONEYLAUNDERING | 15 | Occupation where you're involved in cleaning up a lot of pictures of Benjamin Franklin? |
| 45% | SALAD | 5 | *Dish with a lot of veggies and dressing ... or a bygone genre of Spanish music |
| 44% | STEP | 4 | Part of a process or a staircase |
| 43% | PLANTING | 8 | Process of putting a bush or seed into the ground |
| 43% | ADHESION | 8 | The action or process of sticking to a surface |
| 42% | CONNECTFOUR | 11 | Game involving dropping discs ... or a description of 17-, 30-, 37-, and 45-Across? |
| 42% | MANY | 4 | A lot of |
| 42% | MUCH | 4 | A lot of |
| 42% | XXXX | 4 | A lot of |
| 42% | ENTAILS | 7 | Involves, or a phonetic feature of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 42% | DIVIDINGLINES | 13 | Some painting in a parking lot ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? |