| 100% | MEMORIES | 8 | *Thoughts of the past ... something that can "trap" you in nostalgia |
| 55% | BIOMARKER | 9 | Something that can indicate the presence of a disease in the body |
| 50% | ECHO | 4 | Something you can hear while creeping about in the catacombs of Paris |
| 48% | EGO | 3 | Something that can get in the way |
| 48% | STRAPPEDFORCASH | 15 | Something that you've placed over your shoulder in the hope that it will somehow drag you out of the hole? |
| 48% | HASH | 4 | Something you can buy at any time of day in Frank's Diner down on the corner |
| 47% | FUTURE | 6 | Something in front of you that can't be seen |
| 46% | STATEDEBT | 9 | Something that can be collected from anywhere in the U.S.? |
| 46% | PLANET | 6 | "Kingdom of the ___ of the Apes," sci-fi film about a primate species that you can watch on the big screen in 2024 |
| 45% | DAM | 3 | Something that stops the flow of water in a stream |
| 44% | GIFT | 4 | Something that can be wrapped using the starts of 17-, 24-, 40-, 51- and 64-Across |
| 43% | HANDFUL | 7 | The amount of something that can be held |
| 43% | ELBE | 4 | Something that will take you by all the banks in Wittenberg |
| 43% | JAW | 3 | One of the structures in the mouth that helps you chew |
| 43% | LOON | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 43% | WREN | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 43% | OWL | 3 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 43% | JAY | 3 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 43% | HAWK | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 43% | CROW | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 43% | HEARTED | 7 | Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | PEN | 3 | Something you can't complete the S.A.T. in |
| 42% | LIRE | 4 | Something you could see in the Trevi Fountain until 2002 |
| 42% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | Word that can precede the starts of eight key words in this puzzle |
| 41% | SMOKE | 5 | Tip-off that you've forgotten something in the toaster |
| 41% | TINT | 4 | One of the knobs you could adjust on those old clunky TVs of the sixties |
| 41% | COMA | 4 | You can be in it and out of it at the same time |
| 41% | GSTRING | 7 | Part of a guitar that also names something you can wear |
| 41% | TIT | 3 | Chickadee's cousin that you see in The Broads of Norfolk |
| 41% | MAP | 3 | Piece of paper that can show you the neighborhood |