| 100% | CAMP | 4 | Something to make at night and break in the morning |
| 44% | SADSONG | 7 | Something to take and "make it better," in the Beatles' "Hey Jude" |
| 42% | EARLY | 5 | Like six in the morning, to a night owl |
| 41% | REDSKY | 6 | Warning in the morning or delight at night, in a saying |
| 41% | AXE | 3 | Something to help you make your cabin in the woods |
| 41% | SHADOW | 6 | What's longer in the morning and evening than it is at noon |
| 40% | AFTERDARK | 9 | At night ... and where the starts of the answers to starred clues can go |
| 40% | BEDHEAD | 7 | Messy hair in the morning, and a hint to the tops of the theme answers |
| 40% | SUNRISES | 8 | Breaks in the morning |
| 39% | BOOZE | 5 | Something made in the still of the night? |
| 38% | FRUIT | 5 | They're "chopped up" to make the anagrams at 2- and 5-Down |
| 38% | DAY | 3 | It breaks in the morning |
| 38% | DAWN | 4 | It breaks in the morning |
| 38% | OPENACANOFWORMS | 15 | Attempt to fix something and inadvertently make the situation worse |
| 37% | WEB | 3 | "Step 2: Log in to the ___ and make a souvenir list!" |
| 37% | CAMP | 4 | Something to make or break |
| 37% | BEAUTYS | 7 | Something one might need to look good in the morning |
| 37% | HASTE | 5 | Something to make in an emergency? |
| 36% | TOOL | 4 | *Device or gadget, and something Q may make to aid James Bond in combat |
| 36% | CHANGEOFPACE | 12 | Welcome break in one's routine, or the progression found at the starts of 20-, 33-, and 43-Across |
| 36% | SCARY | 5 | Keeping you up at night with your eyes wide open and the sheets pulled up to your chin, say |
| 35% | WISH | 4 | Something to make before blowing out the birthday candles |
| 35% | DRESSED | 7 | In the morning, kids are told to go get __ |
| 35% | OGDEN | 5 | "The Lord in his wisdom made the fly, And then forgot to tell us why" poet Nash |
| 35% | ADAMS | 5 | Victoria ___ and David Beckham, whose wedding at the Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland made headlines in 1999 |
| 35% | DAVIS | 5 | Vernon ___, football tight-end who retired in 2020 and made it to Pro the Bowl twice |
| 35% | LUKE | 4 | ___ Kuechly, football linebacker who retired in 2020 and made it to the Pro Bowl seven times |
| 35% | TURKEYTROT | 10 | Dance to ragtime music in which birdlike movements are made with the shoulders and upper body |
| 35% | OGDEN | 5 | "God in His wisdom made the fly / And then forgot to tell us why" poet Nash |
| 35% | IHEARIT | 7 | Response to something going bump in the night |