| 100% | TONE | 4 | "The ___ of his voice was enough to make them cower." |
| 42% | LIONCUBS | 8 | They grow up to be kings of the savanna |
| 41% | SEEINGRED | 9 | Being angry enough to visualize the color of blood |
| 40% | STTERESA | 8 | First woman to be made doctor of the Roman Catholic Church |
| 40% | MINARET | 7 | Part of a mosque from which the call to prayer is made |
| 39% | DROPIT | 6 | "That'll be enough of that subject" ... and a hint to solving the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | GRIEF | 5 | "To weep is to make less the depth of ___": Shak. |
| 39% | ABCS | 4 | They can be sung to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" |
| 39% | ABCS | 4 | They can be sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" |
| 38% | ELTRAINS | 8 | The 3rd Avenue line was the last of them to operate in Manhattan |
| 38% | POPELEO | 7 | First religious leader of his title to be called "The Great" |
| 38% | DANIEL | 6 | Puppet big cat who moved to his own Neighborhood after leaving the Neighborhood of Make-Believe |
| 38% | GALILEO | 7 | Astronomer who was the first to discover that the Milky Way was made up of stars |
| 38% | TANTALUM | 8 | What the center of Kazakhstan's bimetallic 500-tenge coin was made of, up to 2014 |
| 38% | BACKROOM | 8 | Where shady deals may be made, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers |
| 38% | TOPRANKS | 8 | "It is such fun to fool the folks / And make them butts of harmless jokes …" |
| 37% | KANE | 4 | "Citizen ___," 1941 drama directed by Orson Welles considered to be one of the greatest films ever made |
| 37% | MEET | 4 | To make the acquaintance of someone |
| 37% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| 36% | HOLMES | 6 | To whom Mortimer declares "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" |
| 36% | GERALDINEPAGE | 13 | "The Trip to Bountiful" actress who was the voice of villainous Madame Medusa in Disney's "The Rescuers": 2 wds. |
| 36% | HELL | 4 | "I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to ___ in his own way": Robert Frost |
| 36% | ACACIA | 6 | Tree which is part of the initiation of Master Masons and to them represents the immortality of the soul |
| 36% | CORTESE | 7 | Wines made from this grape variety are long known to be favored by restaurants in the port of Genoa |
| 36% | CABBAGES | 8 | They are used to make sauerkraut |
| 36% | UNDERUSE | 8 | Fail to make the most of |
| 36% | CATS | 4 | 2019 flop whose Variety review began "Nine may not be enough lives for some of the stars to live down their involvement in this …" |
| 36% | BRONTE | 6 | Who wrote "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" |
| 36% | DEEM | 4 | Make the judgment to be |
| 35% | NEON | 4 | "They say the ___ lights are bright ..." (start of the lyrics to "On Broadway") |