| 100% | STEPONIT | 8 | Order to a cab driver, when in a hurry : 3 wds. |
| 47% | STEPONIT | 8 | Order to a slow cab driver |
| 47% | STEPONIT | 8 | Order to a slow cab driver ('faster!') |
| 43% | TRYOUTFOR | 9 | Audition to get a part in: 3 wds. |
| 42% | BYANOSE | 7 | Close way to win, in a horse race: 3 wds. |
| 40% | RIPOPEN | 7 | Unwrap in a hurry (2 wds.) |
| 39% | RATES | 5 | Gives five stars to a cab driver |
| 39% | OFTHEDEAD | 9 | Day ____, a Mexican holiday when families remember the deceased which takes place in Fall: 3 wds. |
| 39% | OUTOFIT | 7 | In a daze: 3 wds. |
| 39% | VASCODAGAMA | 11 | Portuguese explorer who found a sea route from Europe to India in the late 1400s: 3 wds. |
| 39% | ATLEISURE | 9 | Not in a hurry: 2 wds. |
| 38% | PASSERS | 7 | Highway drivers in a hurry |
| 38% | LEBRONJAMES | 11 | Star forward who forced 36-Across into a sidekick role when he returned to Ohio in 2014: 2 wds. |
| 38% | SAMUELLJACKSON | 14 | "Snakes on a Plane" actor who wore an eyepatch to play Nick Fury in many Marvel movies: 3 wds. |
| 38% | SUBPOENA | 8 | Order to make a witness appear in court |
| 38% | NOHIT | 5 | A game in baseball when the opposing team fails to record a single base hit: 2 wds. |
| 38% | KINGOFCALYPSO | 13 | Nickname earned by 31-Across in the 1950s when his first album became the first long-play record to sell over a million copies (3 wds.) |
| 38% | PIT | 3 | Place to retire in a hurry? |
| 37% | NEWYORKJETS | 11 | Team that scored a huge upset in 1969 when it defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III: 3 wds. |
| 37% | ERS | 3 | Places to see M.D.'s in a hurry |
| 37% | RENO | 4 | Where to get hitched in a hurry |
| 37% | BEPATIENT | 9 | Advice given to people in a hurry |
| 37% | IMIN | 4 | "___ a bit of a hurry": (When you have to leave quickly) 2 wds |
| 37% | TAXIRIDE | 8 | Trip in a cab: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ONTHINICE | 9 | In a dangerous position: 3 wds. |
| 36% | THREWON | 7 | Donned in a hurry, as an outfit (2 wds.) |
| 36% | IMISSYOU | 8 | Loving words to a far-away friend: 3 wds. |
| 36% | ABATH | 5 | "I like to enjoy ___ in a tub": 2 wds. |
| 36% | ARRANGE | 7 | To place things in a desired order |
| 36% | JAMESEARLJONES | 14 | First Black performer to win a Tony Award for Lead Actor in a Play, for "The Great White Hope" in 1969: 3 wds. |