| 100% | VOLLEY | 6 | "They had to face a ___ of questions from the media." |
| 60% | ANY | 3 | "___ questions?" question to clarify doubts at the end of a lesson that you have probably heard from your teacher |
| 52% | TAKE | 4 | "Don't have to always be right, let me ___ some of the punches" (lyric from a 2005 song) |
| 52% | WISEACRE | 8 | Word that comes from the Dutch for "soothsayer" and, despite appearances, has no relation to a unit of measurement |
| 48% | DARED | 5 | Had the courage to face a challenge |
| 47% | RADIUS | 6 | Line from the center to the edge of a circle |
| 47% | QUEEN | 5 | They have the Guinness distinction of Longest Running Fan Club for a Group |
| 46% | AAHS | 4 | They accompany the oohs from a crowd of spectators |
| 46% | ASK | 3 | To request information in the form of a question |
| 46% | LIVES | 5 | A cat is said to have nine of them |
| 46% | EDGED | 5 | To have cut the borders of a lawn neatly |
| 46% | FREEPR | 6 | The power of social media from a marketing standpoint, informally |
| 46% | STERN | 5 | From stem to ___ (along the whole length of a ship) |
| 46% | LIVES | 5 | A cat is said to have 60-Across of them |
| 46% | 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" |
| 45% | REEPEATS | 8 | The Chicago Bulls had a pair of them in the 1990s |
| 45% | VENTRICLE | 9 | A cavity in an organ; the heart has two of them |
| 45% | LIBERTY | 7 | Statue of __, a present from France to the USA |
| 45% | ROOMFORDESSERT | 14 | Question from a server, or what was needed to create the answer to each starred clue |
| 45% | TINCANS | 7 | They're tied to the back of a married couple's car |
| 45% | HANDOFF | 7 | Transfer of the football from a quarterback to a runner |
| 45% | WIDTH | 5 | Measurement from one side of a pool to the other |
| 45% | IRONS | 5 | You might have a lot of them in the fire |
| 44% | EAR | 3 | A mantis is the only animal known to have just one of these |
| 44% | TOOKCALCULATEDRISKS | 19 | Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper knew they had to chance it in the unknown field of computer science, so they... |
| 44% | AFT | 3 | Toward the most common part of a boat to fish from |
| 44% | TREETRUNK | 9 | Natural fixture from which to hang the end of a hammock |
| 44% | HOLMES | 6 | Sherlock ___, character from the eponymous series played by Benedict Cumberbatch who has a perfect poker face |
| 44% | CANS | 4 | They're sometimes tied to the back of a bride and groom's car |
| 44% | COLDPLAY | 8 | Band who had a Rush of Blood to the Head in 2002 |