| 100% | FATIGUE | 7 | What an Ironman has to battle |
| 57% | LINES | 5 | What an actor has to memorize for a role |
| 48% | PIN | 3 | What you have to remember to use an A.T.M. |
| 46% | STARTSWITHABANG | 15 | Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 45% | SLANT | 5 | What an editorial has |
| 45% | CAUSE | 5 | What an activist has |
| 45% | HIGHHO/WATERPES | 15 | What an optimist has |
| 45% | OPPOSITEMEANING | 15 | What an antonym has |
| 45% | HANDINTHETILL | 13 | What an embezzler has |
| 44% | JAW | 3 | Glass ___ (what an unskilled boxer is said to have) |
| 44% | HOPE | 4 | What an optimist always has |
| 44% | ANSWERS | 7 | What an information booth has |
| 44% | JOB | 3 | What an employed person has |
| 44% | VACANCY | 7 | What an unpopular inn has |
| 44% | WAYWAYWAYWAYSTOP | 16 | What an intersection may have |
| 43% | THINSKIN | 8 | What an easily offended person has |
| 43% | CELL | 4 | What an amoeba has one of |
| 43% | SHARPWIT | 8 | What an astute, humorous person has |
| 43% | NOUN | 4 | What an article may refer to |
| 43% | SEAT | 4 | What an usher ushers you to |
| 43% | BOWSTRING | 9 | What an arrow is nocked to |
| 43% | BLOWS | 5 | What an argument might come to |
| 43% | SEAT | 4 | What an usher guides someone to |
| 43% | PROSANDCONS | 11 | Both sides of an argument, and what have been switched to create the answers to the starred clues |
| 42% | LIFTGATE | 8 | Rear device for an SUV, or what the answers to 3-, 9-, 17- and 27-Down all have |
| 42% | EGO | 3 | What an arrogant person has in abundance |
| 42% | HONESTLIVING | 12 | What an average person tries to earn |
| 42% | STEM | 4 | What an inflectional ending is added to |
| 42% | LINES | 5 | What an actor is given to rehearse |
| 42% | FLYINGSAUCER | 12 | What an alien might use to eat? |