| 100% | MEANS | 5 | "What It ___ When a Man Falls from the Sky" (short story collection by Lesley Nneka Arimah) |
| 42% | SNOWS | 5 | What it does when frozen flakes fall from the sky |
| 41% | SNOWS | 5 | What it does when flakes fall from the sky |
| 35% | EYE | 3 | Short story collection by Frank Herbert ('85) which includes "The Road to Dune", a guidebook for pilgrims to the planet Arrakis |
| 33% | HIGHSCHOOL | 10 | What 1986 ___ romantic comedy got its title from a song by the Psychedelic Furs? |
| 33% | SUN | 3 | "The Wind from the ___," 1972 collection of sci-fi short stories by Arthur C. Clarke |
| 32% | NOONE | 5 | Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who |
| 32% | RAIN | 4 | When water falls from the sky |
| 31% | GARDENPARTY | 11 | The —, 1922 short story collection by Katherine Mansfield |
| 31% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 30% | FIVECARATSOUL | 13 | 2017 short story collection by 30-Across featuring middle school-aged boys in a band (3 wds.) |
| 29% | LEAF | 4 | It falls from a tree in the fall |
| 29% | WONDERWALL | 10 | A hit song by English band Oasis from their second album "(What's the Story) Morning Glory" |
| 29% | RAIN | 4 | Falls from the sky |
| 29% | RAINS | 5 | Falls from the sky |
| 29% | RAINED | 6 | Fell from the sky |
| 29% | MEN | 3 | "___ Without Women," 2014 short story collection by Haruki Murakami that shares its title with Ernest Hemingway's short story collection |
| 29% | BRANDY | 6 | It was invented from boiling wine by a Dutch man |
| 29% | TUX | 3 | What a man would wear to the Oscars, for short |
| 28% | STANDINGO | 9 | What it's called when you get a rise out of an audience, for short? |
| 28% | DAM | 3 | What the fish says when it runs into a concrete wall |
| 28% | DEFAULT | 7 | What a game is won by when the other team forfeits |
| 28% | QUARTERSIZEHAIL | 15 | Big fall from the sky? |
| 28% | RAINDROPS | 9 | Liquid orbs falling from the sky |
| 28% | HAILSTONES | 10 | Chunks that fall from the sky |
| 28% | GREY | 4 | Dull color of the sky when it's overcast, or the color of a pebble |
| 28% | GEOMETRY | 8 | What the acorn said when it grew up, in a classic math joke |
| 28% | LETTERS | 7 | "___ from a Stoic," a collection of 124 epistles by Seneca the Younger |