| 100% | HOPIN | 5 | Two-word phrase to a hitchhiker |
| 72% | HOPIN | 5 | Words spoken to a hitchhiker |
| 69% | HOPIN | 5 | Words to a hitchhiker |
| 69% | GETIN | 5 | Words to a hitchhiker |
| 68% | HOPIN | 5 | Welcome words, to a hitchhiker |
| 67% | HOPIN | 5 | Words to a hitchhiker: 2 wds. |
| 64% | HOPIN | 5 | Welcome words to a hitchhiker |
| 64% | GETIN | 5 | Welcome words to a hitchhiker |
| 59% | COMECLEAN | 9 | Two-word phrase meaning to confess |
| 59% | UNDERLINE | 9 | Typographic recourse to call out a word or phrase |
| 57% | FLUBUG | 6 | Two-word phrase for sickness worse than a cold |
| 56% | GOODFORYOU | 10 | Phrase to a recent winner |
| 55% | TENANTS | 7 | Ones paying flat rates ... or, when read as two words, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 55% | SWEETDREAMS | 11 | Phrase to a tucked-in tot |
| 55% | GETIN | 5 | Invitation to a hitchhiker |
| 55% | HOPIN | 5 | Invitation to a hitchhiker |
| 55% | GETIN | 5 | Offer to a hitchhiker |
| 55% | HOPIN | 5 | Offer to a hitchhiker |
| 55% | SLUR | 4 | In music, to perform smoothly a melodic phrase of two or more notes |
| 55% | FIREANDRAIN | 11 | James Taylor classic ... or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue |
| 54% | HOP | 3 | "___ in!" (invitation to a hitchhiker) |
| 54% | ALIFT | 5 | "Need __?"; query to a hitchhiker |
| 53% | GETIN | 5 | Invitation to a hitchhiker: 2 wds. |
| 53% | HOPIN | 5 | Music to a hitchhiker's ears |
| 53% | YOULOSE | 7 | Calvin Coolidge's reputed reply to a woman who bet she could get more than two words out of him |
| 53% | ASHES | 5 | Word before and after "to," in a religious phrase |
| 53% | HOPIN | 5 | Welcome invitation to a hitchhiker: 2 wds. |
| 52% | HYPHENATE | 9 | Add a dash to join two words |
| 52% | THANKYOU | 8 | Two words to express gratitude |
| 52% | XMARKSTHESPOT | 13 | Treasure-indicating phrase, and a hint to the first words of the starred answers |