| 100% | NICE | 4 | Pleasing and agreeable |
| 63% | PLEASANT | 8 | Polite and agreeable |
| 63% | PLEASANT | 8 | Nice and agreeable |
| 60% | GLAD | 4 | Pleased and happy |
| 60% | GLAD | 4 | Pleased and delighted |
| 56% | MAGICWORDS | 10 | Please and thank you, e.g. |
| 54% | NICE | 4 | Agreeable and pleasant |
| 53% | ELAPSE | 6 | Please move and pass |
| 51% | ELAPSE | 6 | Please move and go by |
| 51% | ELAPSE | 6 | Please run and go by |
| 51% | GLAD | 4 | Happy and pleased |
| 51% | GLAD | 4 | Delighted and pleased |
| 47% | FALLSASLEEP | 11 | Autumn pleases somehow and goes off |
| 43% | FUSSY | 5 | Someone who is very selective and hard to please |
| 42% | INTRODUCEMEAS | 13 | "Could you please ___ your producer and not your creativity strangler'?" |
| 40% | MAKEITNEAT | 10 | "Straight up, please," to match 17-, 25-, 37-, and 51-Across? |
| 39% | IMPLORES | 8 | Says "please" and then some |
| 39% | AMYPOEHLER | 10 | "Parks and Recreation" actress who wrote the memoir "Yes Please": 2 wds. |
| 39% | VOTE | 4 | November 8 is a crucial midterm in the US, please register and ___ |
| 38% | ADEAR | 5 | "Please be ___ and help me" |
| 38% | AMYPOEHLER | 10 | "Parks and Recreation" actress who wrote the 2014 memoir "Yes Please": 2 wds. |
| 36% | ADO | 3 | "And now without further ___, please welcome..." |
| 35% | POLITE | 6 | Saying "Please" and "How do you do?," say |
| 35% | INEEDYOU | 8 | "Please stay and help me" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | TIOMKIN | 7 | Dimitri —, Russian-American composer and pianist; author of 1959 autobiography Please Don't Hate Me |
| 35% | DIMITRI | 7 | & 8A Russian-American composer and pianist who authored 1959 autobiography Please Don't Hate Me |
| 34% | USEFUL | 6 | "Choose the life that is most ______, and habit will make it the most agreeable" — Francis Bacon |
| 34% | DISMISSAL | 9 | "Please pack your knives and go," for one |
| 34% | CALLING | 7 | "Your ___ card, if you please sir. Leave it on the tray, and visit her you may!" |
| 34% | USTED | 5 | "If you ever speak to me in Spanish, please use the formal ___" (Parks and Recreation quote) |