| 100% | GIVEITSOMEJUICE | 15 | Wry suggestion at breakfast about what to feed the cat when you're out of milk? |
| 39% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 32% | SELECTIONS | 10 | What you're faced with making when looking at the list of names on November 3 |
| 30% | SEATED | 6 | What you're supposed to remain when you're about to land at LAX |
| 30% | ROOF | 4 | Now you know what to look for, but where is it? (1/5) Did it fall out when Santa landed on the ___ of the house? |
| 29% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 28% | LIFEJACKET | 10 | What to wear when taking out the junk? |
| 28% | ALL | 3 | What to buy when the Tide is out? |
| 28% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 28% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 28% | STEM | 4 | What to hold when the bud's for you |
| 27% | LALA | 4 | What to sing when you don't know the words |
| 27% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words |
| 27% | BED | 3 | What you get out of in the morning |
| 27% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 27% | NINE | 4 | Cat lives count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 3d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 27% | TOLD | 4 | Let the cat out of the bag, so to speak |
| 27% | COMA | 4 | You're out of it when in this |
| 26% | IDLING | 6 | What you're doing when you're waiting for the light to change |
| 26% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words to a song |
| 26% | CROSS | 5 | Out of sorts ... or what completes the answers to the nine starred clues |
| 26% | IPASS | 5 | Phrase said when you're out of Scrabble moves |
| 26% | STEM | 4 | What sticks out at the top of an apple |
| 26% | SLOPE | 5 | What a chairlift drops you at the top of |
| 26% | IMUP | 4 | What you say to tell someone you're out of bed: 2 wds. |
| 26% | FEE | 3 | The $1000 you shell out for you and your buddy to play a round of golf at Nevada's Shadow Creek Golf Course |
| 26% | GAS | 3 | What you're running out of when you're running on empty |
| 26% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 26% | TAPE | 4 | What you shouldn't fight, according to an old maxim, when you're thinking about trading against the financial trend |
| 26% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |