| 100% | LINEONE | 7 | What the first call to a receptionist might come in on |
| 43% | FLATTIRE | 8 | What a fork in the road might lead to? |
| 43% | PRIZE | 5 | What may be on the line in a competition |
| 42% | CACHE | 5 | What you might be asked to clear on a tech-support call |
| 42% | BADPR | 5 | What a spin doctor might be called on to take care of |
| 42% | AARON | 5 | Name likely to come first in a class roll call |
| 41% | REDLIGHT | 8 | What Roxanne didn't have to put on, in a song by The Police |
| 41% | AMERICA | 7 | (3/7)...after ["Coming to ___"] 1988 rom-com starring Eddie Murphy...or what may be the third sentence in a romantic story |
| 40% | LINEONE | 7 | What the first caller may be on |
| 40% | STRIKEONE | 9 | Ump's call, often based on a sequence found in the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | SYSTOLICD | 9 | What the first number represents in a certain diagnostic test |
| 39% | PEAR | 4 | On the first day of Christmas, your true love may send you a partridge in this "poached fruit" tree |
| 39% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | What might end the year, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | SEARS | 5 | What to "Come see the softer side of," in a slogan |
| 39% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| 38% | VAUDEVILLESHOWS | 15 | What many people went to see for a night out on the town in the 1920s |
| 38% | TIME | 4 | What's seen on a clock ... and an invisible ingredient for farmers to grow the crops you see in the puzzle |
| 38% | ONEPIN | 6 | The first to go on a strike, usually |
| 38% | BADEND | 6 | What a villain may come to |
| 38% | CHANGELANES | 11 | What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across |
| 38% | ALYSSANAKKEN | 12 | First woman to coach on the field of a Major League Baseball game, for the San Francisco Giants in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 38% | HOUR | 4 | What the slower hand on a clock points to |
| 38% | HOUR | 4 | What the little hand on a clock points to |
| 38% | MOTOROLA | 8 | The first company to sell a cellphone, in 1973 |
| 38% | DASHER | 6 | The first reindeer Santa calls in a Moore poem |
| 37% | EARTH | 5 | What you might "come down to" after having your head in the clouds |
| 37% | AGE | 3 | What the number of candles on a cake may represent |
| 37% | CLOSED | 6 | Came in to pitch at the end of a game |
| 37% | ONEAM | 5 | What the ringing of two bells might signal on a ship |
| 37% | AGE | 3 | What the number of candles on a birthday cake might represent |