| 100% | TORNADO | 7 | "Bad luck, I guess … It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the ___" (quote from 18-Down) |
| 37% | AJA | 3 | Album that begins "In the corner of my eye / I saw you in Rudy's / You were very high" |
| 35% | RARE | 4 | "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most ___ and beautiful of all," quote by the Emperor in Disney's "Mulan" |
| 34% | ALICE | 5 | "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!" speaker |
| 34% | ALICE | 5 | "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!" declarer |
| 34% | OOPS | 4 | "___!... I Did It Again," title track from Britney Spears' album of the same name that celebrates 25 years in 2025 |
| 34% | BEAUTY | 6 | It's said to be in the eye of the beholder |
| 34% | MALEV | 5 | Airline that was the flag carrier of Hungary from 1946 until it declared insolvency in 2012 |
| 34% | USE | 3 | "I ___ antlers in all of my decorating" (lyric from the Disney song "Gaston") |
| 33% | PSALMONE | 8 | It begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 33% | NONE | 4 | "But that's ___ of my business," quote from the popular Kermit drinking tea meme |
| 33% | WANDER | 6 | "...Not all those who ___ are lost...," quote from "The Lord of the Rings" that is part of a poem written by Bilbo Baggins |
| 33% | IOWA | 4 | All of it was in the Louisiana Purchase |
| 32% | TIME | 4 | (I've Had) the ___ of My Life," song from "Dirty Dancing" that features in season 2 of "The Office" |
| 32% | BACK | 4 | "It's no use to go ___ to yesterday because I was a different person then," quote from the children's book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
| 32% | CRIB | 4 | It may be in the palm of one's hand |
| 32% | DOOM | 4 | Mount ___, fictional mountain in the "Lord of the Rings" franchise that is part of its fantastical geography |
| 32% | NYT | 3 | Its motto is "All the News That's Fit to Print," in brief |
| 32% | MOON | 4 | It has phases that are represented by the starts of 18-, 29-, 47- and 61-Across ... and by 1-Down |
| 32% | RSVP | 4 | "May I please remind you that it does not say ___ on the Statue of Liberty" (36-Down quote) |
| 32% | LIFE | 4 | "(I've Had) The Time of My ___," song from the movie "Dirty Dancing" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1987 |
| 32% | HAPPY | 5 | 2013 song by Pharrell Williams that is on the soundtrack of "Despicable Me 2" and was Billboard's number-one single in 2014 |
| 32% | DNA | 3 | "It's in my ___" ("It's part of who I am") |
| 32% | CERSEI | 6 | I am Jaime's twin sister and two of my children have sat on the Iron Throne in "Game of Thrones" |
| 32% | ASHRAM | 6 | In the Mahabharata, it's stated that a youthful Krishna was sent to see Sand?pan? Muni at one of these |
| 32% | BEAT | 4 | "___ It," a hit single from Michael Jackson's album in 16a that won a Grammy for "Record of the Year" |
| 31% | BACKWARDLOOKING | 15 | Give heed! And listen to my tale of the mad tyrant who decreed that all toilets in his realm be installed the wrong way, for he was the … |
| 31% | FOOTSTOOL | 9 | Piece of furniture that the castle's pet dog is turned into in "Beauty and the Beast" |
| 31% | LOVEORCONFUSION | 15 | It starts "Is that the stars in the sky, or is it rain fallin' down?" |