| 100% | ECOCAR | 6 | "___: The NeXt Challenge", 3-year collegiate vehicle technology engineering competition by the DOE and GM in 2008-11 |
| 32% | CAMOUFLAGE | 10 | "Trick" used by the creatures found in rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 |
| 30% | LOW | 3 | Song by Flo Rida and T-Pain that held the #1 spot in 2008 longer than any other song that year |
| 30% | LOW | 3 | Song by Flo Rida and T-Pain that held the No. 1 spot in 2008 longer than any other song that year |
| 27% | PIECEOFME | 9 | Song by 32-Across that won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2008, including Video of the Year (3 wds.) |
| 27% | GEORDILAFORGE | 13 | "Star Trek: The Next Generation" engineer played by LeVar Burton: 3 wds. |
| 27% | PERSONALFINANCE | 15 | Sort of investment suggested by the ends of 3-, 11- and 29-Down |
| 27% | OBAMA | 5 | Barack who was Time's Person of the Year in 2008 and 2012 |
| 27% | SIXTEEN | 7 | Next number in a series suggested by the starts of 17-, 27-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 26% | ODIE | 4 | Dog in the 2008 book "30 Years of Laughs and Lasagna" |
| 26% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Political victor who was Time's Person of the Year in 2008 and 2012: 2 wds. |
| 26% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." |
| 26% | ENIGMA | 6 | The mysterious and still unsolved Internet problem posted by Publius in alt.music.pink-floyd on June 11, 1994 |
| 25% | THEDARKKNIGHT | 13 | 2008 film based on the superhero Batman whose music was composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard: 3 wds. |
| 25% | CATAN | 5 | Die Siedler von ___ (German board game created in 1995 and released in the U.S. the next year) |
| 25% | AMYWINEHOUSE | 12 | "Rehab" singer who won the Best New Artist and Record of the Year Grammys in 2008: 2 wds. |
| 25% | THRILLER | 8 | Album by Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones that won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1984 |
| 25% | ANNABELLEE | 10 | Classic poem that begins "It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea" |
| 25% | SAAR | 4 | Area governed by the League of Nations for 15 years and returned to Germany in a 1935 plebiscite |
| 25% | LINGER | 6 | "Dare Not ___: The Presidential Years," book by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa that was posthumously published in 2017 |
| 25% | CANDACEPARKER | 13 | Chicago Sky star who was named both WNBA Rookie of the Year and WNBA MVP in 2008: 2 wds. |
| 25% | ADDENDS | 7 | The 1 and 2 in 1 + 2 = 3 |
| 25% | REHAB | 5 | 2008 Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Record of the Year winner by Amy Winehouse |
| 25% | PERDONAME | 9 | Reggaeton song by the duo La Factoria and Eddy Lover that won the Urban Song of the Year in 2009 |
| 24% | HELLO | 5 | Hit song by Adele that won 3 Grammy awards including Record of the Year in 2017 |
| 24% | THEMERCHANTOF | 13 | "___ Venice," romantic comedy by Shakespeare in which the main characters are Antonio and Portia: 3 wds. |
| 24% | DAVISCUP | 8 | International athletic competition that began in 1900 as a challenge between the U.S. and Great Britain |
| 24% | ANA | 3 | Movie released on January 3 this year with Andy García and Dafne Keen in the title role |
| 24% | BLUEMONDAY | 10 | Most depressing date of the year, first declared in 2005 and contrived by many pseudo-scientific formulas |