| 100% | MARE | 4 | The old gray one ain't what she used to be |
| 40% | EXMEMBER | 8 | One who used to be in the club |
| 39% | COPPERCOIN | 10 | What the penny used to be |
| 39% | CITY | 4 | Damascus seems to be the oldest continuously inhabited one |
| 38% | LOCKHERROOM | 11 | What she did to not be bothered by the rest of the family? |
| 38% | SHOOT | 5 | What one is not supposed to do to the messenger |
| 38% | BURMA | 5 | What the country Myanmar used to be called |
| 37% | EWE | 3 | She used to be a little lamb |
| 37% | DYE | 3 | Tyrean purple, used to color ceremonial robes, was one the Romans produced from snails |
| 37% | ABSTRACTART | 11 | What may be created using the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 37% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 36% | ROTTENEGG | 9 | What the "last one in" is, when running to the pool: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MERCYMERCYME | 12 | 1971 Top 10 song by 28-Across with the lyrics "Oh things ain't what they used to be, no no / Where did all the blue skies go?" (3 wds.) |
| 36% | LIVESALIE | 9 | Pretends to be what one isn't |
| 36% | THEE | 4 | What you used to be |
| 36% | THEE | 4 | What you used to be? |
| 36% | THOU | 4 | What you used to be? |
| 36% | THOU | 4 | What you used to be |
| 36% | BORNLOSERS | 10 | Ones fated to fail, or what the answers to the starred clues are, initially? |
| 36% | SEQUOIA | 7 | What is the only seven-letter word to use all five vowels and Q? |
| 36% | MESOTRONS | 9 | what mesons used to be called |
| 36% | WERE | 4 | Used to be, in the plural |
| 35% | THISISLANDEARTH | 15 | 1955 sci-fi film that was one of the first to use Technicolor |
| 35% | RAG | 3 | What an old t-shirt may be used as |
| 35% | RAG | 3 | What an old T-shirt might be used as |
| 35% | LIAR | 4 | Pinocchio used to be one |
| 35% | ASHIP | 5 | Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?” |
| 35% | COLDPIZZA | 9 | Leftover snack when one is too lazy to use even the microwave (2 wds.) |
| 35% | NOSTALGIA | 9 | It "isn't what it used to be," said Simone Signoret |
| 35% | RAG | 3 | An old T-shirt might be used as one |