| 100% | GREASE | 6 | Something you might have to do to your cookie sheet prior to slinging your oatmeal-banana-raisin vegan cookies in the oven |
| 35% | AAH | 3 | Something you may have to say to the doc. |
| 34% | YOUCOMPLETEME | 13 | Something you might say to your darling ... or to the letters D-A-R-L-I-N-G in this puzzle |
| 34% | SHELL | 5 | Something you might hold to your ear in order to hear the first parts of 18-, 24-, 52- and 62-Across? |
| 34% | REEDIT | 6 | What you might have to do when you find your earth-shattering column on dandelions is 372 words too long for the space allowed |
| 33% | EARTH | 5 | What you might "come down to" after having your head in the clouds |
| 33% | ROW | 3 | You may have to do this if your Mercury Pro XS quits |
| 32% | HOOPS | 5 | You might have to jump through them to get something done |
| 31% | EAT | 3 | ___ your food, something 23a may do to annoy you |
| 30% | JAR | 3 | Cookie ___, container that you might have put your hands into to steal a treat during your childhood |
| 30% | SECRET | 6 | Spill your ___ (confidential tidbit), something 23a may do to annoy you |
| 30% | BELL | 4 | "The ___ doesn't dismiss you, I do!" phrase to keep students in class until the lesson is over that you have probably heard from your teacher |
| 30% | REMOTE | 6 | Hide the ___ (TV channel changer), something 23a may do to annoy you |
| 30% | AXE | 3 | Something to help you make your cabin in the woods |
| 29% | ISPY | 4 | Game in which you might have to find "something blue" |
| 29% | POSE | 4 | Something you might have to sit still for |
| 29% | FIRESALE | 8 | Something you might have while trying to move quickly |
| 29% | BRA | 3 | Something you may need to get off your chest |
| 29% | CARD | 4 | Library ___, I.D. you might have used during your childhood to borrow books from the library |
| 29% | FOILEDYOURTAXES | 15 | What your accountant has hopefully done by April 15 in order to leave you owing nothing? |
| 28% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 28% | ARTICHOKE | 9 | Something you might want to get to the heart of? |
| 28% | STEP | 4 | You may have to watch yours |
| 28% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 28% | ACHIP | 5 | Something you may have on your shoulder |
| 28% | EAT | 3 | Something you really have to do if you want to live to a ripe old age |
| 28% | COLOGNE | 7 | Something you may have to douse yourself with after a close shave |
| 28% | COSTUME | 7 | Something you might go to a party in |
| 28% | AREA | 4 | You might have to find it in geometry |
| 27% | WONTONSOUP | 10 | Something you might have before the drunken shrimp, say |