| 100% | CONTEND | 7 | To struggle in opposition of something, someone |
| 49% | YEA | 3 | To vote in favour of something (anagram of Aye) |
| 48% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 48% | BEFORE | 6 | Prior to or in front of something |
| 46% | BELIEVE | 7 | To have faith in someone or something |
| 46% | OBSTRUCT | 8 | To get in the way of something |
| 46% | STEAD | 5 | In lieu of someone or something, "in his ___" |
| 45% | SELL | 4 | To exchange something with someone in return for money |
| 45% | DELIGHT | 7 | To take great joy in something, state of happiness |
| 45% | BEQUEATH | 8 | Leave something to someone in a will |
| 45% | AFOUL | 5 | In opposition to, with "of" |
| 44% | BEQUEATH | 8 | Legally leave something to someone in a will |
| 44% | STOP | 4 | Something to do in the name of love? (6) |
| 43% | STOLI | 5 | Vodka brand that shed its longer, Russian name in opposition to the invasion of Ukraine |
| 43% | SLEEP | 5 | Something that crossword constructors working to deadlines are often in dire need of |
| 42% | APPLE | 5 | ___ of the eye, fall-related idiom for something extremely precious to someone |
| 42% | CATHEXIS | 8 | Investment of libidinal energy on someone or something, to a Freudian |
| 42% | ANGLICAN | 8 | Someone faithful to the Church of England or any Church in communion with it |
| 41% | DASHEDLINE | 10 | Indication of where to cut … or something written five times in this puzzle? |
| 41% | AWAY | 4 | To squirrel ___, fall-related idiom that means to hide something of value in a safe place |
| 40% | AGAINST | 7 | In opposition to |
| 40% | CONTRA | 6 | In opposition to |
| 40% | ANTI | 4 | In opposition to |
| 40% | ATHWART | 7 | In opposition to |
| 40% | MOCK | 4 | To make fun of something in a scornful manner (rhymes with "chalk") |
| 40% | EVACUEE | 7 | Someone who is moved to safety in times of war |
| 40% | OLE | 3 | Shout to someone in danger of getting stuck |
| 40% | XBOXLIVE | 8 | Service that allows you to play Gears of War with someone in a different country |
| 39% | WITHOUT | 7 | Absence or lack of something or someone |
| 39% | ANTINOMIC | 9 | In opposition to one another |