| 100% | PLATE | 5 | What utensils go to the left and right of |
| 62% | TACKLESHOP | 10 | Place catering to the left and right of center? |
| 54% | ALT | 3 | Key to both the left and right of a PC's space bar |
| 51% | SIDE | 4 | To the left or right of an object |
| 48% | HARLEM | 6 | Let's go to the 1920s! What will you see here? The ___ Renaissance, a revival of Afro-American culture across the 1920s and 1930s |
| 46% | XXXXXX | 6 | What Democrats are said to be left of, and Republicans right of |
| 46% | WARMINGUP | 9 | Getting ready to exercise ... or what the words composed of circled letters are doing when read from left to right? |
| 46% | IDIOM | 5 | Figure of speech ... and a synonym of the puzzle's alternate title, spelled left to right in the circled squares |
| 45% | ALT | 3 | Key to the left or right of the space bar on a Windows keyboard |
| 45% | MENU | 4 | Keyboard choice often found to the left of the right control key |
| 45% | ABRAHAM | 7 | Face to the right of George, Thomas and Theodore |
| 44% | FORK | 4 | Utensil to the left of the plate in a standard table setting |
| 44% | ACUTABOVE | 9 | Superior to ... and what can go with the starts of 3-, 7-, 9- and 24-Down |
| 44% | HEADLIGHT | 9 | Night driving need, and what can go with the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 44% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Engage in tomfoolery ... and a hint to what goes with each part of the answers to starred clues, but not in the same way |
| 44% | ABRAHAM | 7 | Mount Rushmore face to the right of George, Thomas, and Theodore |
| 43% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |
| 43% | SIDES | 5 | Left and right of objects |
| 43% | LUNAR | 5 | Left woman to the right of the moon |
| 43% | TALC | 4 | What goes right to the bottom? |
| 42% | NERVE | 5 | What Madonna, Dee Snider and Prince struck, to PMRC of the eighties |
| 42% | AGE | 3 | What the titles of Adele's "19," "21," and "25" refer to |
| 42% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | GEE | 3 | Go to the right! |
| 41% | ACROSS | 6 | Direction of a row; left to right, not up and down |
| 41% | ASIDE | 5 | To the left or right |
| 41% | ABUT | 4 | Go to the edge of |
| 41% | FREECLIMB | 9 | What 15- and 48-Across did to reach the top of the cliff: Hyph. |
| 41% | SCALES | 6 | Goes to the top of |
| 41% | JEEP | 4 | Let's go to the 1940s! What will you see here? You will see this SUV being launched and becoming popular |