| 100% | ACTI | 4 | It starts when the curtain goes up |
| 68% | ACTI | 4 | It starts when the curtain rises |
| 61% | SHOWTIME | 8 | *When the curtain goes up |
| 54% | SHOWTIME | 8 | The curtain goes up at this point |
| 53% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Encouragement before the curtain goes up |
| 48% | LAP | 3 | It goes away when you stand up |
| 47% | FAREWAR | 7 | When the price to go up may go down? |
| 47% | UMBRELLAS | 9 | They go up when it comes down |
| 46% | HEMLINE | 7 | It went up in the 1960s |
| 45% | UMBRELLA | 8 | It goes up when it comes down |
| 44% | SLUSHY | 6 | When snow on the ground starts melting, it is __ |
| 43% | GRIDLOCK | 8 | It's created when traffic jams up all the roads |
| 43% | DURAG | 5 | It might be on the floor when you wake up |
| 42% | EXXONSTOCK | 10 | It went down when the Valdez crashed |
| 42% | IMPROVISE | 9 | Make it up as one goes along, on the spot |
| 41% | ACTI | 4 | When the curtains open |
| 41% | ASTIME | 6 | "___ goes by", the song that became famous when Sam played it in "Casablanca" |
| 41% | WHIRLYBIRD | 10 | Roof installation that's just cool when it goes with the flow? |
| 41% | OUT | 3 | Where a dog wants to go when it scratches the door, perhaps |
| 40% | SLEEPDEBT | 9 | What builds up when the rest is gone? |
| 40% | GEOMETRY | 8 | What the acorn said when it grew up, in a classic math joke |
| 40% | JIG | 3 | It's usually up when the cops walk in |
| 40% | ACTI | 4 | It starts when an overture's over |
| 39% | CRISPIN | 7 | "Life starts all over again when it gets ___ the fall" ("The Great Gatsby"): 2 wds. |
| 39% | TAGLINE | 7 | "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water," e.g. |
| 39% | LUTE | 4 | Instrument that becomes another instrument when "F" is added to the start of its name |
| 39% | ANTE | 4 | It starts the pot |
| 39% | ROWED | 5 | Went up the creek? |
| 39% | CLIMB | 5 | Go up the ladder |
| 38% | MEALTIME | 8 | When the stomach starts grumbling |