| 100% | AGED | 4 | Made better with time |
| 72% | AGEWELL | 7 | Get better with time |
| 69% | AGED | 4 | Got better with time? |
| 67% | ENHANCE | 7 | Make better with a few improvements |
| 64% | HEAL | 4 | Get better with time, as an injury |
| 64% | AGED | 4 | Got better with time, like fine wine |
| 61% | CURING | 6 | Making well again; preserving meat with salt |
| 61% | APTLY | 5 | With good timing |
| 59% | FAUN | 4 | Good time with a deity |
| 59% | FAUN | 4 | Good time with a divinity |
| 58% | HOKE | 4 | Make artificially better, with "up" |
| 56% | INNOVATE | 8 | Make something better with new ideas |
| 56% | SELFCARE | 8 | Making time for one's own well-being |
| 55% | LOOTS | 5 | Makes off with the goods, in a way |
| 54% | LAYAWAYPLAN | 11 | Purchasing system with payments made over time |
| 54% | THREATEN | 8 | "Don't ___ me with a good time" |
| 54% | EYECONTACT | 10 | Something that good speakers make with audiences |
| 53% | NEW | 3 | With 7-Across and 5-Down, time to make resolutions |
| 53% | BARTER | 6 | Make a trade with goods or services instead of money |
| 52% | GETALIFE | 8 | "Surely you can do better things with your time!" |
| 52% | POUNDCAKE | 9 | Baked good originally made with four sticks of butter |
| 52% | WEHAVEFUNHERE | 13 | “Ah, it’s always a good time with us” |
| 51% | AARP | 4 | Org. with the motto "The power to make it better" |
| 51% | BEATLES | 7 | The best-selling musical act of all time, with the |
| 51% | WINE | 4 | Fine ___, rhyming phrase that refers to enhancement with time, just like a well-cellared Cabernet |
| 50% | GETALIFE | 8 | "Surely you can do better things with your time" (3 wds.) |
| 50% | AMC | 3 | Theater chain with the Nicole Kidman "We Make Movies Better" ad |
| 50% | AXL | 3 | Better known first name of William Bruce Bailey who made it big with GNR |
| 49% | ATUL | 4 | ___ Gawande, surgeon with the #1 New York Times best seller "Being Mortal" |
| 49% | SAILON | 6 | 1979 Commodores hit with the lyric "Good times never felt so good" |