| 100% | OVERHEADS | 9 | The day-to-day costs of running a business |
| 60% | OUTGOINGS | 9 | Expenditure, running costs of a business |
| 58% | HOTONE | 6 | Definitely a day to run the A.C. |
| 58% | DAILYMAIL | 9 | Newspaper behind the hoax about a man who thought he had to run for 26 days instead of 26 miles for the London Marathon: 2 wds. |
| 57% | GODUTCH | 7 | Lady and gent to share the cost of a meal |
| 57% | ELOPES | 6 | Runs off to a justice of the peace |
| 56% | STY | 3 | Where a pig retreats to at the end of the day |
| 56% | DOMESTIC | 8 | Relating to the running of a home |
| 55% | TUNNEL | 6 | *Light at the end of the ___, a sign of better days to come |
| 55% | IDES | 4 | 13th day of a hollow month, to the Romans |
| 54% | HANDOFF | 7 | Transfer of the football from a quarterback to a runner |
| 54% | THEBIGPEELS | 11 | Story of a noir detective looking radiant after a few trips to the day spa? |
| 53% | ADS | 3 | They often cost millions of dollars to run during the Super Bowl |
| 53% | BED | 3 | Furniture you look forward to at the end of a long day |
| 53% | SIXFLAGS | 8 | Popular day trip destination ... or a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | PINKTAX | 7 | The cost of being a female consumer |
| 52% | BUTTOUT | 7 | "Mind your own business!" ... or a hint to the four sides of this puzzle |
| 52% | MORN | 4 | Poetic time of day … and a clue to the circled square in this row |
| 51% | SHOES | 5 | *We will, we will rock you!* "Tighten the laces of your ___, there's a lot of running to do!" |
| 51% | NIGHT | 5 | "Are you a morning person or a ___ person?" question to ask someone about their preferred part of the day |
| 51% | EXPENSE | 7 | The cost of acquiring a service or product |
| 51% | ATALOSS | 7 | How not to run a business |
| 51% | GEESE | 5 | "On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, six ___ a-laying..." |
| 51% | SWANS | 5 | "On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, seven ___ a-swimming" |
| 51% | MAIDS | 5 | "On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, eight ___ a-milking..." |
| 51% | LORDS | 5 | "On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, ten ___ a-leaping..." |
| 50% | CLIENTELE | 9 | The customers of a business |
| 50% | TAB | 3 | The key to the left of Q in a keyboard |
| 50% | ROSEPARADE | 10 | Annual New Year's Day spectacle ... and a hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across |
| 50% | PARTNER | 7 | Someone who helps you to run a business |