| 100% | ELECTRONS | 9 | What atoms lose during oxidation and gain during reduction |
| 41% | HOUR | 4 | What's gained or lost during daylight saving time |
| 38% | BREAKEVEN | 9 | Neither gain nor lose money, and what the starred answers do |
| 34% | FAST | 4 | What many do during Ramadan and Yom Kippur |
| 32% | HOUR | 4 | What’s “lost” in March and “gained” again in November |
| 31% | YOYO | 4 | ___ dieting (cycles of losing and gaining weight): Hyph. |
| 30% | IONS | 4 | Atoms that have gained or lost electrons |
| 30% | YDS | 3 | What football plays gain or lose: Abbr. |
| 30% | ION | 3 | Atom that has gained or lost an electron |
| 29% | YARDS | 5 | Things gained and lost in football |
| 29% | ONEHOUR | 7 | What's gained or lost with daylight saving time |
| 28% | ION | 3 | Tiny atom that has lost or gained an electron |
| 28% | YOYO | 4 | ___ dieter (someone who gains and loses weight repeatedly): Hyph. |
| 27% | IDO | 3 | What the bride and groom say during a wedding ceremony: 2 wds. |
| 27% | BREAKEVEN | 9 | Neither lose nor gain... and a hint to four long answers |
| 26% | DOUBLEHEADER | 12 | Stadium marathon, or what the eight answers with circles gained individually, and what they gained collectively |
| 26% | LITTLEBOPEEP | 12 | One who lost what's hidden in 19-, 34- and 42-Across |
| 25% | BOND | 4 | What atoms do |
| 25% | THETRUMANRACE | 13 | What Dewey lost? |
| 24% | YOUR | 4 | With 71-Across, possible result of my gain ... and what four long answers have undergone? |
| 24% | BOND | 4 | What atoms may have |
| 24% | HOMEFRONT | 9 | Civilian activity site during wartime ... and what the end of 17-, 25-, 49- and 59-Across can be |
| 24% | STOPALONGTHEWAY | 15 | Break during a road trip, and what can be found in 17-, 26-, and 46-Across |
| 24% | SOAR | 4 | What prices do during hyperinflation |
| 24% | PLAY | 4 | What kids do during recess |
| 24% | PLAY | 4 | What schoolchildren do during recess |
| 24% | RISE | 4 | What prices do during inflation |
| 24% | THEEU | 5 | What was exited during Brexit |
| 23% | EDEN | 4 | What's lost in "Paradise Lost" |
| 23% | EBB | 3 | What waves do during low tide |