| 100% | REBATE | 6 | You may have to send for it |
| 66% | EASYA | 5 | You hardly have to study for it |
| 66% | DESK | 4 | You might have to work on it |
| 65% | REENTER | 7 | ... you may have to ___ it |
| 64% | AREA | 4 | You might have to find it in geometry |
| 63% | POSE | 4 | Something you might have to sit still for |
| 62% | JAR | 3 | You might have to hit its bottom to unscrew its top |
| 62% | FAIR | 4 | Where you might have to exchange tickets for food |
| 59% | BAR | 3 | To succeed, you may have to raise it |
| 59% | OTHERSHOE | 9 | You might wait for it to drop |
| 59% | PAYCOD | 6 | What you may have to do for goods bought by mail order |
| 58% | DRAMACLUB | 9 | You might expect it to have an acting president |
| 58% | LEG | 3 | You might be told to break it, for luck |
| 57% | DOI | 3 | "___ have to spell it out for you?": 2 wds. |
| 56% | EMAIL | 5 | It may have an attachment for you |
| 56% | NASA | 4 | It might send you to the moon |
| 54% | MTA | 3 | It might help you get to Carnegie Hall, for short |
| 54% | STEP | 4 | You may have to watch yours |
| 54% | URGES | 5 | You might have to fight them |
| 54% | MERGELEFT | 9 | What you might have to do for some highway construction … or a first hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 54% | SCREENSHOT | 10 | Attachment you might send to a tech person when you have a computer problem |
| 53% | 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 |
| 52% | ICER | 4 | You might have to eat this person's words |
| 52% | ATTIC | 5 | Room where you may have to stoop |
| 52% | BELT | 4 | A loser may have to tighten it |
| 52% | TRUSTMEONTHIS | 13 | "You'll have to take my word for it" |
| 52% | ACCESSCODE | 10 | What you may have to enter to enter |
| 51% | VENDETTA | 8 | You may have it against someone |
| 51% | PHOBIA | 6 | You may have one for spiders |
| 51% | PENNE | 5 | You might have it "alla vodka" |