| 100% | MIDWIFECRISIS | 13 | What you have when your aide faints in the delivery room? |
| 44% | EARTH | 5 | What you might "come down to" after having your head in the clouds |
| 42% | MESS | 4 | What you end up with when your kid's school volcano project prematurely erupts in the kitchen |
| 42% | REAR | 4 | What your American Saddlebred might do when you stick the rowels in too hard |
| 40% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 39% | REEDIT | 6 | What you might have to do when you find your earth-shattering column on dandelions is 372 words too long for the space allowed |
| 39% | RUG | 3 | What you would find on the floor of your living room |
| 38% | SPRING | 6 | You have one in your step when you're happy |
| 38% | FLOWSTATE | 9 | What you're in when you're in the zone |
| 38% | TOW | 3 | What you might request when your car has broken down |
| 38% | NOSMALLFEET | 11 | What you'll see in the Chicago Bulls' locker room? |
| 37% | FLUTE | 5 | What you might blow in, when you're blowin' in the wind? |
| 35% | RUNSOUTOFOINK | 13 | What you hope the guy at the next desk does when he keeps grunting at your queries? |
| 35% | OBS | 3 | Doctors in the delivery room (Abbr.) |
| 34% | ANTS | 4 | When you have these in your pants, you can't sit still; busy insects |
| 34% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 34% | ARM | 3 | What you have up your sleeve |
| 34% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 33% | PROUDPAPAS | 10 | Ones taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe |
| 33% | FOILEDYOURTAXES | 15 | What your accountant has hopefully done by April 15 in order to leave you owing nothing? |
| 33% | THATSAWRAP | 10 | "And we're done!" ... or what you might say when you see the words hidden in the themed answers? |
| 33% | PAIN | 4 | What you experience when your toe gets stubbed |
| 33% | INVISIBLE | 9 | 52-Across song with the lyric "Then I could just watch you in your room" |
| 33% | IRE | 3 | What you feel when your favorite band breaks up |
| 32% | BEG | 3 | Letters on your baggage tag when you're destined for the Nikola Tesla Airport in Serbia |
| 32% | AMORE | 5 | What you feel "when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" |
| 32% | ALBUMEN | 7 | What you have if you don't get the yolk? |
| 32% | ADDRESSBAR | 10 | Candy you have when typing in a URL? |
| 32% | ALTOGETHER | 10 | On the whole ... or, when read in two parts, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 32% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |