| 100% | GLOWER | 6 | To glare and cast a moody glance at someone |
| 36% | HEX | 3 | To cast a spell on someone |
| 35% | IMMIGRANT | 9 | Someone comes to a country and settles there |
| 34% | HOUSED | 6 | Gave someone shelter and a place to live |
| 33% | ROLE | 4 | Part that a casting director finds someone to portray |
| 33% | SHORTCHANGE | 11 | Cheat at checkout ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| 33% | ALES | 4 | Alternatives to porters and stouts, at a bar |
| 33% | SIDESWIPE | 9 | Glancing blow on the road, and a hint to the puzzle's circles |
| 32% | SIDEEYE | 7 | Scornful glance ... and a hint to completing 12 aptly placed answers |
| 32% | THATSMYPOI | 10 | Admonishment to someone eating off your plate at a Polynesian restaurant? |
| 32% | SHOWY | 5 | A word used to describe someone who is flamboyant and theatrical (rhymes with "snowy") |
| 32% | TWODRINKMAX | 11 | Limit at the bar, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| 31% | CPR | 3 | Procedure done at a hundred to a hundred and twenty b.p.m. |
| 31% | SHOEBOXES | 9 | Stack at Famous Footwear, and a hint to the sets of circled letters |
| 31% | CHEWTHEFAT | 10 | To have a long, friendly conversation with someone ("Let's meet for coffee and ___!"): 3 wds. |
| 31% | APE | 3 | Word that means to imitate someone and is also the name of a primate |
| 31% | BOIL | 4 | Heat a liquid to a temperature at which it bubbles and turns into vapor |
| 31% | PEEP | 4 | Cast a glance |
| 31% | IDO | 3 | What a bride and groom say to each other at the altar: 2 wds. |
| 31% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 31% | ROLEMODEL | 9 | A person that is often looked at as someone to follow in the footsteps of : 2 wds. |
| 30% | THUD | 4 | Sound when a tree falls in a forest and someone is around to hear it |
| 30% | SIDEOFFRIES | 11 | Order at a fast-food restaurant, and a hint to parts of the starred answers |
| 30% | LEER | 4 | Cast a creepy glance |
| 30% | UPTHEANTE | 9 | Increase what is at stake ... or a hint to answering 20-, 30- and 46-Across |
| 30% | CART | 4 | Item at the entrance of a supermarket to push around and fill up with groceries |
| 30% | INES | 4 | To date, only the incidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima have earned a seven on this rating system (abbr.) |
| 30% | YOUREOUT | 8 | Call at home, and a clue to the ends of 17-, 24-, 40- and 52-Across |
| 30% | RINGSIDE | 8 | Choice seating at a boxing match, and a hint to making sense of the peripheral answers |
| 30% | RIGHTTURN | 9 | With 55-Down, sign at some corners, and a hint to four places in this grid |