| 100% | SNOUT | 5 | What a tapir can grasp and manipulate objects with |
| 39% | ROUGH | 5 | With 38- and 49-Across, unrefined, and a hint to what can precede this puzzle's border words |
| 38% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |
| 38% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 37% | ATEFORTWO | 9 | Dined with a bun in the oven, or what can be found in 17-, 26-, 40-, and 51-Across |
| 37% | READ | 4 | What a blind person can do with Braille |
| 37% | KITE | 4 | What a kid could fly with a string attached |
| 36% | ROCKANDROLL | 11 | Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33- and 40-Across |
| 36% | SEW | 3 | What a tailor would do with a needle and thread |
| 36% | SHOE | 4 | Inanimate object with a tongue and a heel |
| 36% | WELLNESS | 8 | What a balanced diet, exercise, and therapy can promote |
| 35% | SPLITLEVEL | 10 | Home with a between-floors entrance ... and what can be found on puzzle rows 3, 6, 8 and 10? |
| 35% | SEW | 3 | What you do with a needle and thread |
| 35% | FIRE | 4 | What you can start with a book of matches |
| 34% | SKIP | 4 | What you can do with a stone or a rope |
| 34% | SEED | 4 | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
| 33% | GREAT | 5 | With 87-Across, what might cost you an arm and a leg? |
| 33% | ALFREDO | 7 | What would you call a fettuccine dish made with parmesan and butter? |
| 33% | FRESHSTART | 10 | What a new year can give you ... or what 17-, 23-, 34-, and 49-Across can have? |
| 32% | PLANT | 5 | What could have a stem, leaves and flowers |
| 32% | SALISBURY | 9 | What would you call a steak made from ground beef and served with gravy? |
| 32% | RAMEN | 5 | Soup that can be made with instant noodles and a flavor packet |
| 32% | SONAR | 5 | What some tiger moths can jam when faced with suddenly becoming a bat's lunch |
| 31% | DINGHY | 6 | Open boat with a mast and sails that can be used for racing |
| 31% | ROOM | 4 | What's left in a cup of coffee so that you can add cream and sugar |
| 31% | HAND | 4 | What's used in a high five ... and a word used with 38a to signify 50a |
| 31% | EXCUSEMEOFFICER | 15 | With 38- and 60-Across, what the man caught taking a dip in the reservoir said |
| 31% | SMALL | 5 | With 62-Across, a trifling amount . . . and what’s found in four places in this puzzle |
| 31% | OUTOF | 5 | Lacking, and what can go with each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 31% | SHE | 3 | Pronoun that can be spelled with a slash between the first and second letters |