| 100% | OUTINFORCE | 10 | Like a throng of protesters taking to the streets |
| 49% | FLEW | 4 | Took to the skies, like a bird |
| 48% | FLEW | 4 | Took to the skies, like a bird or Superman |
| 44% | MINUTES | 7 | Notes taken to record the events of a meeting |
| 44% | SUFFIX | 6 | Morpheme added to the end of a word, like "itis" |
| 44% | INREVOLT | 8 | Taking to the streets |
| 44% | RIOTS | 5 | Takes to the streets |
| 44% | RIOTED | 6 | Took to the streets |
| 43% | CURBS | 5 | Takes to the street edge |
| 41% | NEXT | 4 | What one at the head of a line likes to hear |
| 41% | EIGHTBULBJOKE | 13 | Gag about how many people it takes to change the devices of a whole chandelier, maybe? |
| 41% | IMMORAL | 7 | Like planting hard drugs on a teacher to get out of taking a test |
| 41% | APPROPRIATION | 13 | Act of taking a property without having the right to do so |
| 41% | CLIMB | 5 | Go up, like someone trying to reach the top of a mountain |
| 41% | PARTANIMAL | 10 | Like a centaur or faun ... or a hint to the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 41% | BOBSUPANDDOWN | 13 | Moves like a buoy in the ocean ... or a hint to the circled parts of this puzzle? |
| 40% | APT | 3 | Like the anagramming of A DECIMAL POINT to make I'M A DOT IN PLACE |
| 40% | INS | 3 | "It took me a while to learn the ___ and outs of the job" |
| 40% | SOAR | 4 | Take to the air, like an eagle |
| 40% | STERN | 5 | Like the tone of a talking-to |
| 40% | PARASKI | 7 | Take to the slopes with a chute |
| 40% | BREAKDANCES | 11 | Acrobatic street moves ... or a hint to parts of the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | MAXOUT | 6 | Take to the limit, as a credit card |
| 39% | APPEALING | 9 | Winsome ... or like the ends of 17-, 24-, 51- and 58-Across, to a punster? |
| 39% | RHIANNON | 8 | She "takes to the sky like a bird in flight," per Fleetwood Mac |
| 39% | SIDEARM | 7 | Like some baseball pitches ... and a hint to locating the second part of four three-part puzzle answers |
| 39% | SCUD | 4 | Name of a missile used in the gulf war, which means to move quickly like clouds |
| 39% | MALORT | 6 | Chicago liquor that, according to the Times, “tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires” |
| 38% | UPHILL | 6 | Direction taken when racing to the top of a mount |
| 38% | SELFMADE | 8 | Like the hero of a rags-to-riches story, perhaps |