| 100% | GEL | 3 | "The results show that the team is starting to ___ at last!" (working well together) |
| 38% | MOVERS | 6 | Businesses that tend to be busiest at the starts and ends of months |
| 38% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | 1962 novelty hit that starts "I was working in the lab late one night" |
| 38% | OBO | 3 | Phrase indicating that the seller is ready to accept the next best price: Abbr. |
| 37% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | Classic song that starts "I was working in the lab late one night" [2003, 1970] |
| 37% | DOWN | 4 | ___ to the wire, phrase that originated in horse racing that refers to a situation where the outcome is decided at the last possible minute |
| 36% | LEAKEDFOOTAGE | 13 | "___ appears to show that the ship has been damaged" |
| 36% | JONG | 4 | Author whose best-known work begins "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" |
| 35% | UNDERDOGS | 9 | The teams that are considered least likely to win |
| 34% | SKA | 3 | Ongoing radio telescope project being built in Australia and South Africa, that's planned to start generating data in the late 2020s (abbr.) |
| 34% | LOSTTIMEFORMAKEUP | 17 | Was late to an appointment at the cosmetician? |
| 34% | CSI | 3 | Drama that was the #1 show of the season from fall 2002 to spring 2005 |
| 34% | ANGER | 5 | "He that is slow to ___ is better than the mighty": Proverbs |
| 34% | ETAS | 4 | When trains are predicted to show up at the station: Abbr. |
| 33% | ETHIC | 5 | Work ___ (set of morals to be followed at the office) |
| 33% | FOB | 3 | The tiny pocket that was at one point being used to carry a pocket watch |
| 33% | FINAL | 5 | "Is that your ___ answer?", catchphrase used by Regis Philbin on the reality show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" |
| 33% | TALENT | 6 | Ability that allows you to be better at something |
| 32% | NUN | 3 | What Maria is planning to become at the start of "The Sound of Music" |
| 32% | BAN | 3 | Word that becomes its own synonym when the last letter is changed to "r" |
| 32% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 32% | FINAL | 5 | "The ___ Problem," Sherlock Holmes story that was originally intended by Arthur Conan Doyle to be his last Holmes-related work |
| 32% | VERTICAL | 8 | A line that is at right angles to the horizon |
| 32% | APHASIA | 7 | Communication disorder that is a result of damage to the language parts of the brain |
| 32% | VILE | 4 | Word that becomes its own synonym if the last letter is moved to the front |
| 32% | LUTE | 4 | Instrument that becomes another instrument when "F" is added to the start of its name |
| 32% | CAST | 4 | Action that can be done to the starts of 20-, 35-, 44- and 56-Across |
| 32% | NETHERLANDS | 11 | Team that was runner-up to the USA in the 2019 World Cup |
| 32% | PADRES | 6 | San Diego team that lost to the Phillies in late October |
| 32% | ACH | 3 | German cry that can be found at the start of "achoo" |