| 100% | SEX | 3 | What the Victorian euphemisms "amorous congress" and "taking a flyer" meant |
| 38% | BAT | 3 | Baseball equipment, and a verb that means "to take the role of hitting the ball" |
| 36% | ARE | 3 | What the French "es," "sont" and "sommes" all mean |
| 36% | TRADEMARK | 9 | What the tiny TM after a brand name means |
| 35% | IOWABUNDLE | 10 | What the Indian said after taking out a car loan? |
| 35% | OPINION | 7 | What the "O" in IMO in a text message means |
| 35% | REST | 4 | Take a chill pill and lie on the couch, say |
| 35% | SALE | 4 | What the sound a smashing gavel at Sotheby's might mean |
| 35% | EARNINGS | 8 | What the E means in a company's P/E ratio |
| 35% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| 35% | CHANGEDIRECTION | 15 | Take a different route, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 34% | IDO | 3 | What the bride and groom say during a wedding ceremony: 2 wds. |
| 34% | URBANOASIS | 10 | Place to take a break from the hustle and bustle |
| 34% | PAIL | 4 | What Jack and Jill took up the hill |
| 34% | STAMP | 5 | What takes a licking and keeps on sticking? |
| 34% | YES | 3 | What the foreign words "oui," "ja," and "da" all mean |
| 33% | LETSPLAY | 8 | What a dog's tail wag and bark might mean |
| 33% | IPASS | 5 | What a player may mean by knocking on the table |
| 33% | ROLLTHEDICE | 11 | Take a chance, and how to form the sequence in each set of circled letters |
| 33% | MORALHIGHGROUND | 15 | What the righteous may claim, and a hint to the starred answers |
| 33% | SEED | 4 | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
| 33% | EXAM | 4 | What often takes place right before the end of a semester |
| 33% | BOW | 3 | What a play's cast takes after the show is over |
| 32% | JULY | 4 | What the beginnings of 17-, 25-, 40- and 52-Across are each a fourth of, phonetically |
| 32% | REAIM | 5 | Look away; take a deep breath. Hold it and look through the crosshairs again. |
| 32% | PILOT | 5 | What Barbie becomes when she takes to the skies and flies planes |
| 32% | YES | 3 | What a fist bobbing up and down means in American Sign Language |
| 32% | KENNEDY | 7 | A L —, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| 32% | GAMIFICATION | 12 | What's caused a mismatch between the starred clues and their answers |
| 32% | PEA | 3 | "A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?" |