| 100% | OWE | 3 | With 5 Down, be behind, as a tenant |
| 44% | AIL | 3 | Be down with a bug |
| 44% | AIL | 3 | Be down with a cold, perhaps |
| 44% | AIL | 3 | Be down with a cold, maybe |
| 44% | SLID | 4 | Were down a little, as stocks |
| 43% | GOOD | 4 | With 5-Across, old-fashioned exclamation that doubles as a Thanksgiving compliment |
| 42% | SMITE | 5 | Strike down, as with a sword |
| 42% | COLLAPSE | 8 | Fall down, as with a building |
| 42% | SMOTE | 5 | Struck down, as with a sword |
| 42% | LOVE | 4 | With 5-Down, many a ballad |
| 42% | LIP | 3 | With 5-Down, match, in a way |
| 42% | HAD | 3 | With 5-Down, ate a bit of |
| 41% | PLUMB | 5 | With 111 Down, crazy as a loon, in the Crazy A Saloon |
| 41% | ONTHE | 5 | With 5-Down, where "Quiet!" is often yelled |
| 41% | CHAIN | 5 | With 5-Down, shop in a mall, often |
| 41% | FACE | 4 | With 5 Across, company that the 14 Down is suing for allegedly breaking antitrust laws |
| 40% | INTOW | 5 | Being pulled behind, as a repossessed vehicle: 2 wds. |
| 40% | OFFICEJOB | 9 | Something that might be held down with a tie? |
| 40% | COOOVER | 7 | Be enamored with, as a baby |
| 40% | GONEDARK | 8 | Been shut down, as a theater |
| 40% | BITAT | 5 | Was nippy with, as a puppy |
| 40% | GRAHAM | 6 | With 5-Down, a TV gourmet |
| 40% | JELLY | 5 | With 5-Down, jazz pianist Morton with a confectionary name |
| 40% | TIDE | 4 | With 5-Down, cleaning products that people are inexplicably eating |
| 40% | BANK | 4 | With 5-Down, one seen in a cage |
| 40% | PAT | 3 | Frisk, as a suspect, with "down" |
| 39% | PHEASANT | 8 | A long tailed bird that is often hunted as game (rhymes with "pleasant") |
| 39% | TABLE | 5 | With 5-Down, it's often shaken out in a diner |
| 39% | WAFT | 4 | Be carried gently, as a smell with breeze |
| 39% | GOT | 3 | Came down with, as a cold |