| 100% | GREET | 5 | Meet and ___ (chance to say hi to a celeb) |
| 50% | GREETING | 8 | Saying hello to a person when you meet |
| 50% | TIMEALONE | 9 | Chance to unwind and read a book, perhaps |
| 48% | CHARLESDEGAULLE | 15 | His death prompted Georges Pompidou to say "France is a widow" |
| 47% | INVITE | 6 | Ask to a Zoom meeting, say |
| 47% | STAYAFTERSCHOOL | 15 | Go to a chess club meeting, say |
| 47% | ENTOURAGE | 9 | People supporting and attending to a celeb |
| 46% | AYE | 3 | How a pirate says yes to his captain |
| 46% | SHY | 3 | Not likely to speak up in a meeting, say |
| 45% | TOP | 3 | Add chocolate sauce and a cherry to, say |
| 44% | ART | 3 | It "should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable," according to a saying |
| 44% | WILL | 4 | Rogers who said, "Never miss a good chance to shut up" |
| 43% | FLIPACOIN | 9 | Decide by chance ... and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 43% | HILL | 4 | Where a fool might meet Jack and Jill, according to a Beatles song? |
| 43% | ASKSOUT | 7 | Invites to dinner and a movie, say (2 wds.) |
| 43% | PELOPS | 6 | Son of Tantalus in Greek mythology killed by his father and served to the gods as a meal |
| 42% | AUNTIEMAME | 10 | She said "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" |
| 42% | GREET | 5 | Say hi to |
| 42% | GREETS | 6 | Says hi to |
| 42% | GREETED | 7 | Said hi to |
| 42% | MEASURESUP | 10 | Meets expectations, and a hint to words hidden in the starred answers |
| 42% | OOH | 3 | Crowd's reaction at a missed chance to score in a game of soccer, say |
| 42% | ROLLTHEDICE | 11 | Take a chance, and how to form the sequence in each set of circled letters |
| 42% | LEOVII | 6 | Pope said to have died from a heart attack while in bed with his mistress |
| 42% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 42% | NINTENDO | 8 | 1988 Black Friday craze that introduced many to a superhero plumber and his twin brother |
| 42% | CHAN | 4 | Jackie ___, martial arts legend and actor who lent his name to a species of wasps |
| 42% | ROSSINI | 7 | Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" |
| 42% | GREETING | 8 | Saying hi to someone |
| 41% | IDO | 3 | Words a bride and groom say to each other: 2 wds. |