| 100% | RISES | 5 | Responds to an alarm, in a way |
| 66% | STRESSEATS | 10 | Responds to anxiety, in a way |
| 66% | REACTING | 8 | Responding to something in a particular way |
| 63% | RISE | 4 | Respond to being baked, in a way |
| 62% | FERRIED | 7 | Traveled to an island, in a way |
| 62% | LAPSE | 5 | Come to an end, in a way |
| 59% | SAYSIDO | 7 | Responds to a minister, in a way |
| 59% | DENY | 4 | Respond to a scandal, in a way |
| 59% | AWAKEN | 6 | Respond to an alarm |
| 59% | RISE | 4 | Respond to an alarm |
| 58% | WOKE | 4 | Responded to an alarm clock |
| 58% | AWOKE | 5 | Responded to an alarm clock |
| 58% | AWOKE | 5 | Responded to an alarm, perhaps |
| 58% | ARISE | 5 | Respond to an alarm, say |
| 54% | CCS | 3 | Adds to an email chain, in a way |
| 54% | NEURALLY | 8 | In a way relating to the brain |
| 54% | IRREFUTABLY | 11 | In a way not to be disproved |
| 53% | EQUITABLY | 9 | In a way that is fair to all |
| 53% | STURDILY | 8 | In a way that's meant to last |
| 52% | AGELESSLY | 9 | In a way that never seems to get older |
| 52% | AWAKES | 6 | Responds to a morning alarm |
| 52% | RESET | 5 | Respond to a buzzing alarm |
| 52% | MEDICALLY | 9 | In a way related to treatment of illness or injury |
| 52% | PADS | 4 | Fudges, in a way, as an expense report |
| 51% | ACTTHEPART | 10 | Behave in a way suitable to one's situation |
| 51% | MANIC | 5 | To be excited in a way that suggests frenzy |
| 51% | SLAY | 4 | Kill an animal in a violent way |
| 51% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | A way to score in American football |
| 51% | SIT | 3 | Command that Snoopy responds to by getting into an armchair, in a “Peanuts” strip |
| 50% | EDGEWISE | 8 | One way to get a word in ... and an aural hint to a feature of the starred clues' answers |