| 100% | FOOD | 4 | Something to eat... and what goes around and comes back around in a microwave |
| 50% | YOYO | 4 | Toy on a string that may go around and come back around: Hyph. |
| 47% | ROUNDTRIP | 9 | Going to visit a place and coming back |
| 44% | KARMA | 5 | Cosmic fate that goes around and comes back around |
| 44% | TAPE | 4 | Measuring roll item that goes around and comes back around |
| 44% | WHEEL | 5 | Ferris ___, fun ride that goes around and comes back around |
| 43% | BOOMERANG | 9 | Thrown toy or tool that goes around and comes back around |
| 41% | ROUNDTRIP | 9 | Ticket to go, and come back |
| 41% | REREAD | 6 | Come back to, in a way |
| 41% | GRABFORTYINKS | 13 | What an exhausted, but enthusiastic, tattooist might do if asked to go and get supplies in a variety of colors? |
| 40% | EDDY | 4 | Go around and around, in a way |
| 40% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 40% | YOYO | 4 | Toy with a string, goes down and comes back up: Hyph. |
| 40% | GETSTHEOK | 9 | Receives a go-ahead ... and a hint to what's hidden in 16-, 29-, 35- and 46-Across |
| 40% | ITSOKWITHME | 11 | "Sure, go ahead" ... and a literal hint to what's found in 17-, 26-, 38- and 53-Across |
| 40% | ENCORED | 7 | Asked to come back, in a way |
| 39% | GEARSHIFT | 9 | Auto part, and a clue to what's going on in five rows of this puzzle |
| 39% | YAMS | 4 | May go back to school for something to eat |
| 39% | THEBEST | 7 | What "is yet to come," in a Sinatra classic |
| 39% | TUTU | 4 | Something to go for a spin in? |
| 39% | TOGGLES | 7 | Goes back and forth, in a way |
| 39% | NEGOTIATE | 9 | Go back and forth, in a way |
| 39% | SPAR | 4 | Go back and forth, in a way |
| 39% | WAG | 3 | Go back and forth, in a way |
| 39% | PACE | 4 | Go back and forth, in a way |
| 39% | WAVER | 5 | Go back and forth, in a way |
| 38% | REWIND | 6 | Go back to the start, in a way |
| 38% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Engage in tomfoolery ... and a hint to what goes with each part of the answers to starred clues, but not in the same way |
| 38% | PAIL | 4 | What Jack and Jill went to fetch water in |