| 100% | GUARD | 5 | There's one right and left of center |
| 53% | PUZZLE | 6 | There's one right in front of you |
| 48% | OFS | 3 | They're in left, right, and center, in one sense (abbr.) |
| 45% | SIDES | 5 | Left and right of objects |
| 44% | ALT | 3 | Key to both the left and right of a PC's space bar |
| 44% | TACKLESHOP | 10 | Place catering to the left and right of center? |
| 42% | XXXXXX | 6 | What Democrats are said to be left of, and Republicans right of |
| 41% | DOUBLEPARK | 10 | Leave one's vehicle in a traffic lane, and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 41% | PLATE | 5 | What utensils go to the left and right of |
| 41% | OUTFIELD | 8 | Right, center, and left field in baseball |
| 40% | SIDES | 5 | Right and left |
| 40% | CEE | 3 | Left of center? |
| 40% | TURNOVERANEWLEAF | 16 | "___, and you'll go left or right on that bit of foliage" |
| 40% | ACROSS | 6 | Direction of a row; left to right, not up and down |
| 39% | ABERDEEN | 8 | There's one in WA, MD, SD and Scotland |
| 39% | ALPHABETQUARTET | 15 | There's one in 17-, 26- and 42-Across |
| 39% | ROTARYJOINT | 11 | There's one between the ulna and the radius |
| 39% | REPUBLICAN | 10 | Member of France's center-right, Gaullist, conservative political party, for one |
| 39% | STREETCAR | 9 | There's one of these named "Desire" in play, movie |
| 39% | EPI | 3 | It could be to the left of center |
| 38% | ELIDING | 7 | Leaving out of one's speech |
| 38% | EPI | 3 | Something left of center? |
| 38% | ISS | 3 | There's one every year for Person of the Year: Abbr. |
| 38% | RCA | 3 | One of Rockefeller Center's original tenants |
| 38% | EMIGRATE | 8 | Leave one's country and resettle elsewhere |
| 38% | BERNIE | 6 | One of Joe and Elizabeth's rivals |
| 38% | SAINT | 5 | One of Kim and Kanye's kids |
| 38% | ISMENE | 6 | One of Oedipus and Jocasta’s daughters |
| 38% | LUKE | 4 | One of Padmé and Anakin's twins |
| 38% | AROUND | 6 | On the right and left |