| 45% | ARBOR | 5 | You'd expect it to be shady |
| 45% | CATSEYE | 7 | You'd expect it to catch a mouse |
| 43% | ATLAS | 5 | It can help you to see the world |
| 41% | ASTAGE | 6 | "All the world," in "As You Like It" |
| 41% | TAP | 3 | You turn it to dispense water in the kitchen |
| 41% | OKEEFFE | 7 | Georgia, in the art world |
| 40% | LAT | 3 | You'd expect to see it before long. |
| 39% | TENNIS | 6 | You'd prefer to have service in it |
| 39% | CAPS | 4 | YOU PUT WRITING IN THESE WHEN YOU WANT TO DRAW THE READER'S ATTENTION TO IT |
| 38% | RODS | 4 | What you'd expect to find in coat closets |
| 38% | DRAMACLUB | 9 | You might expect it to have an acting president |
| 37% | COMPLY | 6 | To act in the expected manner |
| 37% | USEIT | 5 | "It's in the Way That You" do this, to Clapton |
| 37% | ALARM | 5 | It's set to wake you in the morning |
| 37% | ASIS | 4 | In the condition that you found it |
| 37% | OLDSTYLE | 8 | In the way it used to be |
| 36% | EXISTS | 6 | It is present in the world |
| 36% | EVENTUAL | 8 | Expected to follow in the future |
| 36% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,653 regular-season games with the Mariners, Yankees, and Marlins: 2 wds. |
| 36% | RAFAELPALMEIRO | 14 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,831 regular-season games with the Cubs, Rangers, and Orioles: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MARX | 4 | Philosopher who wrote, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it” |
| 35% | NIL | 3 | It means nothing in the World Cup |
| 35% | HARRIET | 7 | Did you know that the world's largest 1a was believed to have been lain by the British hen ___ in 2010? |
| 35% | YOUCOMPLETEME | 13 | Something you might say to your darling ... or to the letters D-A-R-L-I-N-G in this puzzle |
| 35% | ASK | 3 | "I sort of hate to ___ it, but do you have a basket?" (rhyming question from Little Red in "Into the Woods") |
| 35% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 35% | FURBISH | 7 | In the old days it meant to polish a weapon |
| 35% | TELESCOPE | 9 | You can use it to see the stars |
| 35% | MOUTHWASH | 9 | Liquid swished in the mouth to clean it |
| 35% | KENGRIFFEYJR | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,671 regular-season games with the Mariners, Reds, and White Sox: 3 wds., abbr. |