| 100% | EMPTYNEST | 9 | What's left when kids go to college |
| 48% | EMPTY | 5 | Like a proverbial "nest" once the kids go to college |
| 48% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 45% | ANALYSIS | 8 | What you do when you go to therapy |
| 45% | ASKNICELY | 9 | What parents say when kids forget to say please |
| 43% | STORYTIME | 9 | When a young kid goes to bed |
| 42% | EXIT | 4 | What to do when you have nothing left to say? |
| 41% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 41% | TREATS | 6 | What kids go from door to door on Halloween looking for |
| 41% | PLATE | 5 | What utensils go to the left and right of |
| 40% | PLURALS | 7 | What you get when you add an s to nouns |
| 40% | ASH | 3 | What's left after a campfire goes out |
| 40% | BREWEDAWAKENING | 15 | What you're subjected to when your alarm clock coffee maker goes off? |
| 39% | PJS | 3 | What to wear when one goes beddy-bye |
| 39% | ARM | 3 | What cyclists are supposed to use, but often don't, when they hang a left |
| 38% | BISON | 5 | Q: What did the buffalo say to his boy when he left? A: ___ |
| 38% | ASH | 3 | What's left in a fireplace after the fire goes out |
| 38% | MAKESABEELINE | 13 | What this puzzle’s solver does when filling in the upper-left to lower-right diagonal? |
| 38% | JUNGLEGYM | 9 | Bars that kids go to? |
| 38% | SAMEOLD | 7 | Unexciting response to "What's going on?," when said twice: 2 wds. |
| 37% | QUITS | 5 | What to call it when it's over |
| 37% | OOH | 3 | "That's going to leave a mark!" |
| 37% | WAY | 3 | "That's the ___ to go!" (what you might say when someone does a great job) |
| 37% | MATER | 5 | Alma ___ (where someone went to college) |
| 37% | LAWRENCEKANSAS | 14 | Where Wilt Chamberlain went to college |
| 37% | VASSAR | 6 | Where Jacqueline Kennedy went to college |
| 37% | DEFER | 5 | Put off, as going to college |
| 37% | URN | 3 | What Jeff Probst holds when he goes to "tally the votes" on "Survivor" |
| 37% | STEM | 4 | What to hold when the bud's for you |
| 37% | COAL | 4 | What Santa leaves in a naughty kid's stocking |