| 100% | TICKLING | 8 | Making someone wriggle and laugh from light touch |
| 44% | TICKLE | 6 | Produce laughs and wriggles with light touch |
| 39% | CERAMIST | 8 | Someone who makes pots and other items from clay |
| 39% | TICKLING | 8 | Poking at someone and making them laugh |
| 35% | AMUSE | 5 | Make someone laugh |
| 33% | ACCENTLAMP | 10 | Light touch from a decorator |
| 33% | ACCENTLAMP | 10 | Light touch from a decorator? |
| 33% | TICKLES | 7 | Makes someone laugh with fingertips |
| 33% | VEX | 3 | Make someone worried and frustrated |
| 32% | PATS | 4 | Light touches, and an apt anagram of "taps" |
| 32% | AMUSE | 5 | To entertain or make someone laugh |
| 31% | TICKLE | 6 | Touch that makes you laugh |
| 30% | HEYCANIGETALIFT | 15 | Request from someone who needs a ride, or a request that can be made of the starts of 17-, 24-, and 43-Across |
| 29% | IOWAN | 5 | Someone from the state between Nebraska and Illinois |
| 29% | DODGING | 7 | __ and burning, making photos lighter and darker |
| 29% | TEPEE | 5 | Structure made from poles and hides |
| 29% | COLLAGES | 8 | Pictures made from odds and ends |
| 29% | GANACHE | 7 | Glaze made from chocolate and cream |
| 29% | CORDITE | 7 | Explosive made from gunpowder and nitroglycerin |
| 29% | BAYRUM | 6 | Fragrance made from leaves and alcohol |
| 29% | IGLOO | 5 | Shelter made from ice and snow |
| 29% | IGLOO | 5 | Dome made from ice and snow |
| 29% | BRASS | 5 | Alloy made from copper and zinc |
| 29% | ORANGEADE | 9 | Cordial made from orange juice and sugar |
| 29% | GROG | 4 | Sailors' drink made from rum and water |
| 29% | ORC | 3 | Fictional creature made from heat and slime |
| 29% | TUMS | 4 | Brand made from calcium carbonate and sugar |
| 29% | GRANITA | 7 | Dessert made from sugar and ice crystals |
| 29% | MARZIPAN | 8 | Confection made from sugar and almond meal |
| 29% | MARZIPAN | 8 | Confection made from ground almonds and sugar |