| 100% | CLEANUP | 7 | Make the place tidy: 2 wds. |
| 58% | BESTOF | 6 | Make the ___ a bad situation: 2 wds. |
| 57% | ONPATROL | 8 | Making the rounds, as security officers: 2 wds. |
| 57% | NEATENUP | 8 | Make tidy: 2 wds. |
| 53% | SPRUCEDUP | 9 | Made clean and tidy (2 wds.) |
| 53% | ISLATE | 6 | Makes the punctual wait (2 wds.) |
| 52% | ARAW | 4 | "You can add ___ banana to make the curry taste better." (unripe): 2 wds. |
| 51% | COMICBOOK | 9 | Setting for each of the places in 15-, 21-, and 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 51% | AARONRODGERS | 12 | Green Bay Packers QB who made the most touchdown passes in 2016: 2 wds. |
| 48% | KYLELOWRY | 9 | Raptors point guard who made the 2016 NBA All-Star team despite being only 6'0": 2 wds. |
| 48% | ISAIAHTHOMAS | 12 | Celtics point guard who made the 2016 NBA All-Star team despite being only 5'9": 2 wds. |
| 48% | CHRISPAUL | 9 | Clippers point guard who made the 2016 NBA All-Star team despite being only 6'0": 2 wds. |
| 48% | IDO | 3 | Vow made at the altar: 2 wds. |
| 48% | IDO | 3 | Promise made at the altar: 2 wds. |
| 48% | IDO | 3 | Pledge made at the altar: 2 wds. |
| 46% | CLEANSUP | 8 | Makes a huge profit, or tidies: 2 wds. |
| 46% | SNEAKIN | 7 | Make it past the bouncer, say (2 wds.) |
| 45% | IIN | 3 | "Am ___ the right place?": 2 wds. |
| 45% | KRISTENBELL | 11 | "The Good Place" actress: 2 wds. |
| 45% | DOGOOD | 6 | Make the world a better place |
| 45% | DOESGOOD | 8 | Makes the world a better place |
| 43% | SETSON | 6 | Places atop: 2 wds. |
| 43% | INSITU | 6 | Found undisturbed in the natural original place: 2 wds. |
| 43% | MONALISA | 8 | The most famous portrait ever made (2 wds) |
| 43% | IDOS | 4 | Promises made at the altar (2 wds.) |
| 43% | IDO | 3 | Promise made at the altar (2 wds.) |
| 42% | AHAIR | 5 | Without ___ out of place (very tidy): 2 wds. |
| 42% | PENNYLANE | 9 | Liverpool street that inspired the place "beneath the blue suburban skies" in a Beatles song (2 wds.) |
| 42% | LEONARDODAVINCI | 15 | He made the Mona Lisa smile: 3 wds. |
| 41% | PARKBENCH | 9 | Place to sit and feed the ducks, say: 2 wds. |