| 100% | ABSENTEE | 8 | One who fails to show up |
| 75% | NOSHOWS | 7 | Ones who fail to keep up appearances? |
| 63% | BLEWOFF | 7 | Failed to show up for, informally |
| 63% | FLAKE | 5 | Fail to show up as expected |
| 61% | AWOL | 4 | One who fails to report, in military: Abbr. |
| 61% | GAMER | 5 | One who aims to level up |
| 59% | FLAUNTER | 8 | One who likes to show off |
| 58% | ATTENDEE | 8 | One who shows up |
| 56% | HISTORYNERD | 11 | One who loves to bring up the past |
| 56% | IDOL | 4 | One who's looked up to |
| 56% | ASSKISSER | 9 | One who sucks up to authority |
| 56% | GONER | 5 | One who's doomed to fail |
| 56% | CAREERISTS | 10 | Ones who strive to move up in their fields |
| 55% | STENO | 5 | One who's up to the minutes |
| 55% | WAFFLING | 8 | Failing to make up one’s mind |
| 55% | THEATERUSHER | 12 | One who'll show you to a seat |
| 55% | SLOB | 4 | One who's slow to pick things up? |
| 55% | SLOB | 4 | One who's slow to pick things up |
| 54% | PATSY | 5 | One who is set up to take the blame |
| 54% | JESTER | 6 | One who shows up in court with bells on |
| 53% | VOLUNTEER | 9 | One who gives up time for free to help others |
| 53% | FIFTHWHEEL | 10 | One who might pull up a chair to a booth |
| 52% | TOYSRUSKID | 10 | One who doesn't want to grow up, in a jingle |
| 51% | ETA | 3 | When one plans to show up (Abbr.) |
| 48% | LATEBLOOMER | 11 | One who catches up eventually ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 30- and 46-Across |
| 48% | MOUNTAINCLIMBER | 15 | One who encounters the last parts of the answers to the starred clues on the way up |
| 48% | SCORE | 5 | High ___, something that one who takes up gaming as a hobby might hope to beat |
| 48% | UNIMPROVED | 10 | Failing to show progress |
| 47% | GASMAN | 6 | One who wears fireproof clothes, carries up to 95 pounds and is a crucial part of the pit crew |
| 46% | LIAR | 4 | One who fails a polygraph test |