| 100% | SHEEPDOG | 8 | What Babe aspires to be in "Babe" |
| 82% | SHEEPDOG | 8 | What Babe wants to be in "Babe" |
| 68% | ACTOR | 5 | What a waiter in New York or Los Angeles might aspire to be |
| 64% | NATOSTATE | 9 | What Georgia aspires to be |
| 62% | NUN | 3 | What Deloris pretended to be in "Sister Act" |
| 60% | NUN | 3 | What Deloris pretended to be, in "Sister Act" |
| 60% | RIDER | 5 | What a hitchhiker aspires to be |
| 59% | ADM | 3 | What a capt. may aspire to be |
| 59% | PLACEPLACEAT | 12 | What it's impossible to be in |
| 58% | KEPT | 4 | What Becky Sharp strived to be in "Vanity Fair" |
| 56% | ACTRESS | 7 | What Penny of "The Big Bang Theory" aspires to be, professionally |
| 56% | ICE | 3 | What might need to be scraped off a windshield in winter |
| 56% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 56% | EXILE | 5 | What many are forced to live in |
| 55% | JOLLY | 5 | What "’tis the season to be," in "Deck the Halls" |
| 55% | AMP | 3 | What went "up to 11," in "This Is Spinal Tap" |
| 55% | AMP | 3 | What goes "up to 11," in "This Is Spinal Tap" |
| 55% | ANTE | 4 | What's required to be "in" |
| 54% | ONEMIND | 7 | What those in agreement are said to be of |
| 54% | CAMO | 4 | What you don't want to be spotted in |
| 54% | VINO | 4 | What "wine" may be referred to as in Spain |
| 54% | MADAM | 5 | What Ethel Merman wanted to be called in 1950 |
| 54% | SCARY | 5 | What the monsters in "Monsters, Inc." want to be |
| 54% | ONE | 3 | The ___, what Neo was destined to be in the film "The Matrix" |
| 54% | MADE | 4 | What Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito desperately wanted to be, in "Goodfellas" |
| 54% | LAW | 3 | What the bill wants to be, in "I'm Just a Bill" |
| 54% | THEBOSS | 7 | What James Brown “paid the cost to be,” in a 1973 song |
| 54% | THEAREA | 7 | What drop-in visitors may claim to have been in |
| 54% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 54% | TREE | 4 | What Melinda is assigned to draw in the novel "Speak" |