| 100% | SEAAIR | 6 | What you can't help breathing in when you're forced to stay in Nassau for a couple of months |
| 30% | NOONE | 5 | Who can get in the way of what Alicia Keys feels for you, in a 2007 hit |
| 30% | FIVE | 4 | Half of a decade or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 34d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 30% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign in Math |
| 29% | BUDS | 4 | Why people can't get your attention when you're listening to music so as not to attract their attention, for short |
| 29% | LEANONME | 8 | What to do "when you're not strong," in a 1972 hit |
| 29% | SOCK | 4 | Matching ___, one of a pair of feet warmers that seems impossible to find when you're looking for it |
| 28% | SOWSEAR | 7 | What you can't make a silk purse out of, proverbially |
| 28% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 28% | ACC | 3 | What you set up at a bank to deposit your money in, for short |
| 28% | STANDINGO | 9 | What it's called when you get a rise out of an audience, for short? |
| 28% | HURT | 4 | What you can't do to a fool, according to a Pretenders song? |
| 28% | FOREST | 6 | What you can't see due to the 38-Across in this puzzle? |
| 28% | HNY | 3 | It's not cool to say this when you run into someone in May that you haven't seen for months (abbr.) |
| 28% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 28% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 28% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 28% | ROOM | 4 | What's left in a cup of coffee so that you can add cream and sugar |
| 27% | NOONE | 5 | Who "can get in the way of what I feel for you," in a 2007 #1 Alicia Keys hit |
| 27% | JUT | 3 | Stick out, like one chair will do when you try to put eleven in a space meant for ten |
| 27% | IDLING | 6 | What you're doing when you're waiting for the light to change |
| 27% | AAA | 3 | They can help you get out of a rut, for short |
| 27% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 27% | ABROAD | 6 | When you're in a foreign country you're said to be |
| 27% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 27% | FELONY | 6 | For a class E one of these you could get up to 5 years and a $250,000 fine |
| 27% | THEREAR | 7 | What you can bring up, in a phrase |
| 27% | SATE | 4 | Word that can fill in the blanks in _ _ T I A _ _ to form a synonym of itself |
| 27% | EAT | 3 | What you're not usually allowed to do in a library |
| 26% | PENALTYBOX | 10 | Place to wait for a couple of minutes, maybe |