| 100% | ALOT | 4 | Leave ___ to be desired: 2 wds. |
| 95% | ALOT | 4 | "It leaves ___ to be desired": 2 wds. |
| 95% | ALOT | 4 | "That leaves ___ to be desired": 2 wds. |
| 95% | ALOT | 4 | "This leaves ___ to be desired": 2 wds. |
| 63% | INTROUBLE | 9 | About to be punished: 2 wds. |
| 63% | ALAW | 4 | "There ought to be ___!": 2 wds. |
| 63% | ENDUP | 5 | Turn out to be: 2 wds. |
| 60% | ITSA | 4 | "___ great day to be alive!": 2 wds. |
| 59% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be served, as beer: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ORNO | 4 | "Yes ___?" ("What's it going to be?"): 2 wds. |
| 58% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured, at a bar: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured from a keg: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be served, at a bar: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be drawn from the keg: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured, at a pub: 2 wds. |
| 58% | IFSO | 4 | "Should that prove to be true ...": 2 wds. |
| 58% | ADARE | 5 | Act on ___ (respond to being challenged): 2 wds. |
| 58% | LOT | 3 | Leave a ___ to be desired (be inadequate) |
| 58% | RUSHJOB | 7 | Task that has to be done very quickly: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ALIE | 4 | Living ___ (pretending to be something you're not): 2 wds. |
| 58% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured into a beer glass: 2 wds. |
| 58% | LOOSEENDS | 9 | Unfinished things that need to be "tied up": 2 wds. |
| 57% | LIEAWAKE | 8 | Be unable to sleep: 2 wds. |
| 57% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be served, like beer at a bar: 2 wds. |
| 57% | ARIANAGRANDE | 12 | "No Tears Left to Cry" (2018 #3 hit) singer: 2 wds. |
| 57% | TODO | 4 | A list of tasks to be performed: 2 wds. |
| 57% | IDO | 3 | Words from one about to be committed: 2 wds. |
| 57% | PAPERJAM | 8 | Photocopier issue that needs to be unstuck: 2 wds. |
| 56% | BOBMARLEY | 9 | Singer whom 15-Across claims to be the reincarnation of: 2 wds. |
| 56% | HOTSEAT | 7 | Contestant's place on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire": 2 wds. |