| 100% | EVILS | 5 | Necessary things, perhaps |
| 61% | BET | 3 | Sure thing, perhaps |
| 61% | SCALE | 5 | Minor thing, perhaps |
| 58% | MUST | 4 | Necessary, obligatory thing |
| 56% | BARE | 4 | The ___ essentials (only the most necessary things) |
| 56% | NEEDS | 5 | Wants and necessary things to a person |
| 55% | ONEDAYATATIME | 13 | How to take things, perhaps |
| 54% | NEED | 4 | Thing that is necessary but lacking |
| 53% | AGREETODISAGREE | 15 | Leave things unresolved, perhaps |
| 53% | SEW | 3 | Patch things up, perhaps |
| 53% | SKEW | 4 | Patch things up, perhaps |
| 52% | EAR | 3 | Thing pierced at a Claire's, perhaps |
| 52% | DOWEL | 5 | One holding things together, perhaps |
| 52% | HABIT | 5 | Good thing to break, perhaps |
| 52% | HABIT | 5 | Hard thing to kick, perhaps |
| 50% | KEY | 3 | Thing on a ring in your pocket, perhaps |
| 50% | RUG | 3 | Fuzzy thing under your feet, perhaps |
| 49% | NOW | 3 | When your boss wants things done, perhaps |
| 49% | KNEWATRICKORTWO | 15 | Had dealt with similar things before, perhaps |
| 49% | DEUCE | 5 | "Wild" thing of a drawing game, perhaps |
| 48% | SHROUDOFTURIN | 13 | Pope Pius XII called it "a holy thing perhaps like nothing else" |
| 48% | OMEN | 4 | Good ___ (sign of positive things to come, perhaps) |
| 47% | AGAME | 5 | Good thing to bring to the field, perhaps |
| 47% | URL | 3 | First thing typed in a new tab, perhaps |
| 46% | LEAVEANOTE | 10 | Do the right thing in the parking lot, perhaps |
| 44% | SAT | 3 | First thing you did at your desk at work, perhaps? |
| 41% | ELECTIONS | 9 | Things you vote in (perhaps today) |
| 39% | VIRTU | 5 | Collection of traits necessary for "the achievement of great things," as theorized by Machiavelli |
| 39% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | Thing made in haste, or perhaps after the first words of 20-, 34- and 40-Across |
| 35% | LEBANESE | 8 | From Beirut perhaps |