| 100% | CHANGE | 6 | "About" means to __ course of the ship by tacking |
| 47% | BACK | 4 | "___ To December," 2010 song by Taylor Swift whose title means the opposite of "front" |
| 46% | ODE | 3 | "To the Ship of State," by Horace, e.g. |
| 45% | WELCOME | 7 | "___ to Wrexham" (FX documentary series about the purchase of a U.K. football club by American actors) |
| 45% | GOD | 3 | "To a ___ Unknown," novel by American author John Steinbeck about the relationship of a man to his land |
| 43% | SHINING | 7 | "The ___," horror novel by Stephen King about a family's trip in the peak of winter to a desolate hotel |
| 43% | ALE | 3 | "___ Street News", founded in 1992 by Tony Forder and Jack Babin to provide info about the world of beer |
| 42% | SHIP | 4 | "The ___ of Brides," 2005 novel by Jojo Moyes about post-WWII brides who depart to meet the men they married in wartime |
| 42% | OSE | 3 | Monosaccharides are named according to a Greek prefix to indicate the number of carbon atoms followed by this suffix, meaning "sugar" |
| 42% | LADDER | 6 | Means of climbing to the roof |
| 42% | CALL | 4 | "The ___ of the Wild," short adventure novel by Jack London about a pet dog who has to survive the frozen wilderness along the Yukon Trail |
| 42% | INTERPRET | 9 | To understand the meaning of something |
| 42% | PINTA | 5 | The —, one of three ships commanded by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to America |
| 42% | WOODS | 5 | "Stopping by ___ on a Snowy Evening," Robert Frost poem about taking a pause to enjoy the quiet beauty of a snowy forest |
| 41% | ARGO | 4 | Ship written about by Apollonius of Rhodes |
| 41% | INTEREST | 8 | The state of wanting to learn about something |
| 41% | INTERPRET | 9 | To examine and explain the meaning of something |
| 41% | SEMANTIC | 8 | Relating to the meaning of words |
| 41% | PHILOSOPHICALLY | 15 | Relating to the meaning of life |
| 40% | BEAGLE | 6 | Ship taken by Charles Darwin to explore the world |
| 40% | LITTLE | 6 | "___ Women," book by Louisa May Alcott which features the line "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship" |
| 40% | GRANDFORKS | 10 | Site of the King's Walk Golf Course, designed by Arnold Palmer |
| 40% | FOODCHAIN | 9 | Apt description of the sequence suggested by the answers to starred clues? |
| 39% | WAYSIDE | 7 | Fall by the __; fail to stay the course |
| 39% | IJEOMAOLUO | 10 | Writer of the bestseller "So You Want to Talk About Race" (2 wds.) |
| 39% | HOMEEC | 6 | It was originally meant to be called “oekology,” the science of right living |
| 39% | ISERE | 5 | Ship that brought the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. |
| 39% | ISERE | 5 | Ship that brought the Statue of Liberty to the United States |
| 39% | ESL | 3 | Course where the conjugation of to be might be taught: abbr. |
| 39% | BYEBYEBYE | 9 | *Hit by *NSYNC about the end of a relationship |