100% | CANOE | 5 | "The water races look so interesting. What is that kayak-like craft called? It's going to have a new extreme slalom!" |
31% | ORAL | 4 | Like a contract that's said to be "not worth the paper it's written on" |
30% | EIGHT | 5 | Number that sounds like "ate" or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 7d to find out what you can do next year) |
30% | NOONE | 5 | Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who |
30% | CONESNAIL | 9 | The Marbled ___, a beautiful looking shell-like creature, whose venom is so potent that one drop is enough to kill 20 humans: 2 wds. |
30% | POLEINTOFIRST | 13 | "The race has just begun, and it looks like the car from Warsaw will ___!" |
29% | DEBTALF | 7 | ... Looking back on it, it's weird the rental company was named ___. What does an ET owing money have to do with trucks?
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29% | TWEETS | 6 | Social media posts like @dril's "awfully bold of you to fly the Good Year blimp on a year that has been extremely bad thus far" |
28% | HOLISTICDIET | 12 | Component of balanced health ... and what each answer to a starred clue looks like it should be part of? |
28% | TODAY | 5 | "___ is a gift, that's why it is called the present" (saying) |
28% | DRAGGAL | 7 | ... Looking back on it, the driver was a ___. You'd think she'd have moved faster since she loves car racing!
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28% | RIPE | 4 | Like a fruit that's good to be had |
28% | AMERICANDREAM | 13 | “It’s called the ___ ’cause you have to be asleep to believe it”: George Carlin |
28% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
27% | NOONE | 5 | "___ knows what it's like, to be a bad man": 2 wds |
27% | AMORE | 5 | What it is when "the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine" |
27% | SUPER | 5 | Word that's its own synonym when a "b" is added to the end |
27% | CINQ | 4 | French cardinal that sounds like it's gone to the bottom? |
27% | ISEE | 4 | "Oh, so that's how it's going to be" |
27% | PITCH | 5 | It has the potential to be a hit |
27% | WGA | 3 | Org. that went on strike over what its leaders called “existential issues,” including residuals and the use of generative A.I. (May-September, 2023) |
27% | IBELIEVESO | 10 | "That's what it looks like to me" |
27% | OLEG | 4 | Man's name that becomes a toy when its first letter is moved to the end |
26% | NEON | 4 | Let's go to the 1980s! What will you see here? You will see a lot of this bright shade used for clothes |
26% | ORANGE | 6 | It is the New Black, according to a Netflix drama |
26% | TAPIRS | 6 | Large animals that look a little pig-like, are related to rhinos and live in the Amazon |
26% | GATE | 4 | Let's go to the 1930s! What will you see here? The Golden ___ Bridge, landmark in San Francisco that you can see after 1937 |
26% | HARLEM | 6 | Let's go to the 1920s! What will you see here? The ___ Renaissance, a revival of Afro-American culture across the 1920s and 1930s |
26% | IPOD | 4 | Let's go to the 2000s! What will you see here? You may see this Apple music device everywhere after its launch in 2001 |
26% | NYT | 3 | Its slogan is "All the News That's Fit to Print": Abbr. |