| 100% | UNMADE | 6 | Needing to be tucked in, say? |
| 63% | OLD | 3 | Needing to be updated, say |
| 63% | THELONG | 7 | With 63-Across, all that needs to be said, or a hint to what's found in each starred answer |
| 62% | DUE | 3 | Needing to be handed in |
| 61% | ELECTRIC | 8 | Needing to be plugged in to work |
| 60% | DUE | 3 | Needing to be turned in, as an assignment |
| 58% | HUM | 3 | Nothing needs to be said to do it |
| 57% | VISAS | 5 | They need to be in order at a border |
| 57% | TOPIARY | 7 | It needs to be kept in shape |
| 57% | OIL | 3 | Liquid that needs to be changed regularly in a car |
| 56% | ICE | 3 | What might need to be scraped off a windshield in winter |
| 56% | INSANE | 6 | Mad to be in French river, say |
| 56% | INSANE | 6 | Crazy to be in French river, say |
| 55% | EVS | 3 | Cars that need to be plugged in (Abbr.) |
| 54% | ROLES | 5 | Parts to be played in movies, say |
| 54% | TWO | 3 | Number needed to tango, in a saying |
| 53% | EMTS | 4 | They may need to be experts in airway management: abbr. |
| 53% | STATETHEOBVIOUS | 15 | *Say something that doesn't need to be said |
| 53% | REPEATABLE | 10 | Suitable to be heard in mixed company, say |
| 53% | THEROD | 6 | Something not to be spared, in a saying |
| 53% | IDEST | 5 | That is to say, in Latin |
| 52% | IGNORANCE | 9 | Said to be bliss, but highly annoying in others |
| 52% | PHOENIX | 7 | Bird said to be reborn in fire |
| 52% | SAFETY | 6 | Something said to be found in numbers |
| 52% | MARIA | 5 | She's a problem that needs to be solved, in song |
| 52% | OTT | 3 | To say something is over-exaggerated, in texting shorthand: Abbr. |
| 51% | OHIO | 4 | State said to be "high in the middle" |
| 51% | THEOCRACY | 9 | Government in which God is said to rule |
| 51% | GLOTTISES | 9 | What are needed to say ''Aye!'' |
| 51% | THREES | 6 | Increments that good things are said to come in |