| 100% | SHAFT | 5 | "Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?" |
| 35% | ALFIE | 5 | Title name after the lyric "What's it all about when you sort it out" |
| 34% | RBI | 3 | Baseball statistic that won't be credited if there's an error on the play: Abbr. |
| 33% | ALARMBELLS | 10 | Things that go off when there's danger |
| 33% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. who created the cats in "Cats" |
| 31% | SNOWDAY | 7 | When there's no class because of all the banks? |
| 31% | ANNE | 4 | Carson who won the 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry |
| 31% | GIVEITSOMEJUICE | 15 | Wry suggestion at breakfast about what to feed the cat when you're out of milk? |
| 31% | BRAINYSEASON | 12 | That time in spring when all the Mensa members come out of the bushes? |
| 30% | HEY | 3 | "___ There Delilah," 2006 song by the Plain White T's featuring Delilah, who is just the kind of girl they sing songs about |
| 30% | DEEN | 4 | Paula who wrote "It Ain't All About the Cookin'" |
| 29% | SUES | 4 | ___ K. Hicks who prosecuted John T. Scopes in 1925 and the guy that Cash sang about in the famous song |
| 29% | BEDELIA | 7 | Fictional Amelia who, when asked to remove spots from a dress, cut out all the polka dots |
| 29% | SARAZEN | 7 | Gene who was the first man to win all four of golf’s modern majors |
| 29% | ALL | 3 | There's no half measures about this when you're doing the laundry |
| 29% | WOODYALLEN | 10 | Who wrote "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens" |
| 28% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. ___ (poet who inspired the musical "Cats") |
| 28% | BEETSBYSKRILLEX | 15 | Sonny Moore's vegan venture that still retains rhythms from when he won all those Grammy Awards? |
| 27% | MEGHANTRAINOR | 13 | "All About That Bass" singer-songwriter who recorded the duet "White Christmas" with 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 27% | ELIOT | 5 | "The Waste Land" poet T.S. ___ who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 |
| 27% | DIAZ | 4 | Cameron —, actress who starred in the 1998 film comedy There's Something About Mary |
| 27% | EEYORE | 6 | Illustrated character who said, “We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it” |
| 27% | AVID | 4 | Like those fans who camp out all night in ticket lines just to ensure they get one of the best seats |
| 27% | RESPECTLESSNIGHT | 16 | Karaoke outing that won't allow Aretha's classic song? |
| 27% | MEGHANTRAINOR | 13 | "All About That Bass" singer who won a Best New Artist Grammy in 2016: 2 wds. |
| 27% | BOBFOSSE | 8 | "All That Jazz" filmmaker who won the Best Director Oscar for "Cabaret": 2 wds. |
| 27% | ANTZ | 4 | Movie that came out about the same time as "A Bug's Life" |
| 27% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer who wrote, about crosswords, "A good clue can give you all the pleasures of being duped that a mystery story can" |
| 27% | MEN | 3 | "All the King's ___" (1949 movie that won the Best Picture Oscar) |
| 27% | JELLICLES | 9 | T S Eliot's cats that meet up at a ball |