| 100% | NOBONES | 7 | What forthright people make about an unpleasant situation |
| 38% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | What a person in an emergency might have to make |
| 35% | SIDESTEP | 8 | Circumvent, as an unpleasant situation |
| 35% | SNOT | 4 | an unpleasant person |
| 34% | SENSE | 5 | What reasonable people make |
| 34% | THEGRADE | 8 | What successful people make |
| 34% | DEBUTANTS | 9 | People making an entrance |
| 33% | LESS | 4 | What frugal people make do with |
| 33% | BIDDERS | 7 | People making offers at an auction |
| 33% | RUB | 3 | ___ salt in someone's wounds (make an unpleasant situation worse) |
| 32% | WELLROUNDEDDIET | 15 | Nutritionist's recommendation … or what the answers to the starred clues make up, to an overly literal person? |
| 32% | RASPS | 5 | Makes an unpleasant sound |
| 31% | GIT | 3 | An unpleasant person, to a Brit (rhymes with "fit") |
| 31% | THELOVELYBOXES | 14 | Film about an elegantly made crossword? (2009) |
| 31% | MIMICS | 6 | People who make an impression? |
| 31% | EQUIPPING | 9 | What makes people write LOL? |
| 31% | RISER | 5 | What makes people sing higher? |
| 31% | WEATHER | 7 | What meteorologists make reports about |
| 31% | ODOR | 4 | What an unclean person emits |
| 31% | JOB | 3 | What an unemployed person lacks |
| 31% | JOB | 3 | What an employed person has |
| 31% | SWAY | 4 | What an influential person holds |
| 31% | FATCONTENT | 10 | What makes an avocado rich |
| 30% | JURYBOX | 7 | What's usually about 12 people? |
| 30% | INSTANTMESS | 11 | What an exploding microwave can make? |
| 30% | PAN | 3 | What you make an omelet in |
| 30% | CABLE | 5 | What might make an elevator pitch? |
| 30% | CLOCK | 5 | What an antsy person might watch |
| 30% | THINSKIN | 8 | What an easily offended person has |
| 30% | USERNAME | 8 | What an anonymous person may lack |