| 100% | LAW | 3 | What an attorney-to-be studies |
| 70% | AGILE | 5 | What an acrobat needs to be |
| 70% | BOWSTRING | 9 | What an arrow is nocked to |
| 69% | WISE | 4 | What an owl is considered to be? |
| 69% | LINES | 5 | What an actor is given to rehearse |
| 68% | CLAP | 4 | What an audience will do to show appreciation |
| 68% | FLAT | 4 | What an a cappella singer never wants to be |
| 67% | STEM | 4 | What an inflectional ending is added to |
| 66% | AREA | 4 | What an integral can be used to calculate |
| 66% | LESS | 4 | What an overachiever might be encouraged to do |
| 66% | ODOR | 4 | What an air freshener is used to mask |
| 66% | SLEEP | 5 | What an alarm clock is meant to end |
| 64% | ERUPT | 5 | What an active volcano is expected to do at some point |
| 63% | SASS | 4 | What "Talk to the hand!" is an example of |
| 61% | SEND | 4 | What you hit on an e-mail that is ready to go |
| 60% | LAW | 3 | What an attorney practices |
| 59% | CHAIN | 5 | What a "series" of fools may be called, according to an Aretha Franklin song? |
| 59% | ADDR | 4 | What's written on an envelope to be mailed: Abbr. |
| 56% | WAGE | 4 | Living ___ (what an employer is asked to pay) |
| 56% | INSECTS | 7 | What an entomologist studies |
| 56% | LINES | 5 | What an actor studies |
| 55% | LAW | 3 | What an attorney practices (set of laid down rules) |
| 55% | EXAM | 4 | Bar ___ (test for an attorney-to-be) |
| 55% | PARADOX | 7 | Logical contradiction ... or an aural hint to what are found in 20-, 25- and 45-Across |
| 55% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 55% | OBOE | 4 | What an orchestra tunes to |
| 55% | MIND | 4 | What an idea comes to |
| 55% | NLER | 4 | What an A is not |
| 55% | INTRO | 5 | What an emcee will provide |
| 55% | ABET | 4 | What an accomplice will do |