100% | RAGES | 5 | "The weight of ___ will press hard upon the employee" (Spoonerism of "The rate of wages will press...") |
35% | ATARI | 5 | Company that was hit hard by the video-game crash of 1983 |
35% | YIELD | 5 | This is the rate of return based on money invested |
34% | LEG | 3 | "The first ___ of the journey was hard" |
33% | PER | 3 | "The rate of interest is 12% ___ annum" |
33% | IGUANODON | 9 | One of the dinosaurs upon which Godzilla is based |
33% | HAIR | 4 | "Easy to Be Hard" musical of the late 1960s |
33% | PETERSON | 8 | Patrick ___, Arizona Cardinals cornerback who was rated as one of the best of 2016 |
32% | WOOLF | 5 | Penner of the line "Language is wine upon the lips" |
32% | LIE | 3 | "Tuesday is the hardest crossword of the week," e.g. |
32% | SLAYINGSLOW | 11 | What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night? |
32% | MARYORR | 7 | Writer of the story upon which "All About Eve" is based |
32% | HARRISJR | 8 | Chris ___, Denver Broncos cornerback who was rated as one of the best of 2016: 2 wds. |
32% | MALCOLMBUTLER | 13 | New England Patriots cornerback who was rated as one of the best of 2016: 2 wds. |
32% | WAVE | 4 | ___ the sails, phrase you would get from a spoonerism of "Save the whales" |
32% | BAUD | 4 | Modems rated at 9600 of these were super fast in the eighties |
31% | STONE | 5 | The hard and solid material of which rock is made |
31% | ORKUT | 5 | Social networking site of the '00s that was named after a Google employee |
31% | IANMCEWAN | 9 | British author of the novel upon which 17-Across is based: 2 wds. |
31% | QUEEN | 5 | "___ of the Supermarket," 2009 Bruce Springsteen song that is an ode to a supermarket employee |
30% | ITALY | 5 | Where the 459 arches of the Aqueduct of Nottolini are |
30% | ANIMALFARM | 10 | Source of the line "Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend" |
30% | DOGWOOD | 7 | Shrub or tree of the genus Cornus whose hard wood is used for tool handles |
30% | NSA | 3 | Org. whose official number of employees is unknown to the public |
30% | MERLE | 5 | French novelist Robert ___, upon whose work the 1973 thriller "The Day of the Dolphin" is based |
30% | CALVINCOOLIDGE | 14 | US vice president who became president upon the death of Warren Harding in 1923: 2 wds. |
30% | DATA | 4 | Facts and figures, or numbers. The kind of thing you would store on a hard drive |
30% | GUNNEDIT | 8 | Pressed hard on the gas |
30% | OBESITY | 7 | The state of being overweight |
30% | FREEDOM | 7 | The state of being liberated |