| 100% | RHYTHM | 6 | What drummers have in order to play in time |
| 55% | ROPE | 4 | What a kid would need in order to play Double Dutch |
| 50% | HEELS | 5 | What Dorothy had to click together in order to leave Oz |
| 50% | FOILEDYOURTAXES | 15 | What your accountant has hopefully done by April 15 in order to leave you owing nothing? |
| 49% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 48% | ART | 3 | What we have "in order not to die of the truth," per Nietzsche |
| 47% | ENROL | 5 | What you had to do in order to vote in last year's Australian general election |
| 47% | EARS | 4 | What Dumbo flapped in order to fly |
| 47% | ACT | 3 | Have a role to play in a show |
| 46% | LETTERSONTHEKEYS | 16 | What's needed in order to escape this crossword |
| 46% | SETLIST | 7 | Itemized concert songs in playing order ... and what all the words in answers to starred clues comprise |
| 45% | OED | 3 | Letters that I had to look up in what turned out to be itself, in order to find out what they meant |
| 45% | BACKWARDDAY | 11 | Time to do things out of order, or what appears in 21-, 26-, and 43-Across |
| 43% | SHIPPING | 8 | Fee paid in order to have a package delivered |
| 42% | CABLE | 5 | What you subscribe to in order to watch Bravo and History Channel |
| 42% | PINT | 4 | Stop in time to have beer |
| 42% | FIRSTTWOLETTERS | 15 | What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense |
| 42% | SEALIONING | 10 | Asking seemingly innocent questions in order to waste someone's time |
| 41% | ILSA | 4 | She asks Sam to play "As Time Goes By" in "Casablanca" |
| 41% | STOOPS | 6 | What She does to Conquer in a Goldsmith play |
| 41% | LINE | 4 | What you often have to wait in at Disneyland |
| 41% | PINT | 4 | Stop in time to have a beer |
| 41% | PINT | 4 | Stop in time to have a drink |
| 41% | FORSTARTERS | 11 | "To begin..." and what the theme answers need in order to make sense |
| 41% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | What a person in an emergency might have to make |
| 41% | RHYME | 5 | What words don't have to do in free verse |
| 41% | NET | 3 | What the serve has to clear, in tennis |
| 41% | LANDOWNER | 9 | What a freed slave was to become in an 1865 order that was eventually overturned |
| 40% | STRESS | 6 | Result of having too much to do in too short a time, probably |
| 40% | STARRED | 7 | To have appeared as the lead in a movie or play |