| 100% | ROGER | 5 | 'Affirmative' as used over the radio for armed forces |
| 36% | ATEON | 5 | Used as the surface for a meal |
| 36% | LABRADORS | 9 | Large dogs often used as guide dogs for the blind |
| 36% | NGALIEMA | 8 | Bay used as a port for Kinshasa in the DRC |
| 35% | CBER | 4 | Trucker who uses radio codes, such as "10-4" for "understood" |
| 35% | HOD | 3 | Used for carrying bricks over the shoulder |
| 35% | REDARMY | 7 | Name for the armed forces of the USSR |
| 34% | RECYCLEDMATERIALS | 17 | Parts used over and over again, such as the letters in the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | AIRED | 5 | Played over the radio |
| 34% | CARBON | 6 | & 23A Colourless gas present in the atmosphere used as dry ice for refrigeration |
| 34% | GAMERGATE | 9 | Misogynistic online harassment campaign used as a recruiting tool for the alt-right |
| 34% | REPO | 4 | A forced return, such as when the government seizes a vehicle, for short |
| 34% | ACACIA | 6 | Tree cited in Exodus as the material used for the Ark of the Covenant |
| 33% | POI | 3 | Name of a Maori performing art as well as the equipment used for this art |
| 33% | METONYM | 7 | Example or attribute of something used to represent the whole, as "sword" for "military power" |
| 32% | OCTOPUS | 7 | Armed force in the ocean |
| 32% | REBREW | 6 | Use over, as tea leaves |
| 32% | ENTERTAINER | 11 | The —, 1902 piano rag by Scott Joplin used as the theme song for 1973 comedy-drama film The Sting |
| 32% | WHOAREYOU | 9 | Rock song used as the theme for "CSI" |
| 32% | NEEM | 4 | Tree also known as the Indian Lilac whose twigs have been used for centuries as a toothbrush |
| 32% | AGENTORANGE | 11 | Highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for crop destruction by the US during the Vietnam War |
| 32% | TIGERSLAM | 9 | Winning four consecutive majors over a two-year span, as named for the first to do it |
| 32% | NOISE | 5 | Static on the radio, for example |
| 31% | SLAG | 4 | Something left over from the Bessemer process that could be used in fertilizer or as a cement additive |
| 31% | HOPONPOP | 8 | Book touted as "The Simplest Seuss for Youngest Use" |
| 31% | EPAULETTE | 9 | Armed forces insignia worn on the shoulder |
| 31% | BABYLON | 7 | "___ 5," one of the first television series to use CGI as the primary method for its visual effects |
| 31% | STOREWIDE | 9 | Over the entire shop, as a sale |
| 31% | IUS | 3 | Word for law as used in the Catholic Church, often preceding canonicum, sacrum, ecclesiasticum or divinum |