| 100% | TIP | 3 | What you leave a waiter when paying the bill, as a sign of appreciation |
| 46% | TIP | 3 | Given to a waiter when paying the bill |
| 40% | SONICBOOM | 9 | What you hear when a plane breaks the speed of sound: 2 wds. |
| 40% | TIP | 3 | What you leave a waiter |
| 39% | TIP | 3 | What you leave a waiter for good service |
| 38% | QUARTERBACK | 11 | What one gets from the hot dog vendor when paying with a $5 bill? |
| 37% | TIP | 3 | Left for the waiter after paying the bill |
| 37% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | OWE | 3 | "What do I ___ you?" (what you'd ask a friend who paid the bill) |
| 35% | SHOP | 4 | What you may do on the Friday after Thanksgiving as a family tradition |
| 35% | AUTOMATES | 9 | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| 35% | TIP | 3 | What you leave for a waiter at a restaurant |
| 35% | BYEALLRIGHTS | 12 | What you're effectively saying when you sign a waiver? |
| 34% | MENU | 4 | Dessert ___ (what a waiter might hand you toward the end of a meal) |
| 34% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | NOTIMETOSPARE | 13 | Comment when you need a serious comeback at the end of a bowling game? |
| 34% | SEINE | 5 | What the Left Bank is a bank of |
| 34% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign |
| 34% | SPENDINGMONEY | 13 | What's left over after the bills are paid |
| 33% | POT | 3 | What may be at stake as a result of the ruling at 37-Across |
| 33% | AHA | 3 | What you say when you have a moment of inspiration |
| 33% | SLIME | 5 | What a snail leaves a trail of when it moves |
| 33% | IRA | 3 | What a 401(k) can be "rolled over" into when you leave a job: Abbr. |
| 33% | VERNE | 5 | Author of the quote "I am not what you call a civilized man!" |
| 33% | UNDO | 4 | What you do when you make a mistake on the computer |
| 33% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign in Math |
| 33% | TOE | 3 | What you might use to test the temperature of a bath |
| 33% | ENDORSE | 7 | Sign, as the back of a check |
| 33% | ENDORSES | 8 | Signs, as the back of a check |
| 32% | ELEC | 4 | A kind of energy which you pay a monthly bill for: Abbr. |