| 100% | FIERY | 5 | ___ furnace (what Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into) |
| 52% | SHADRACH | 8 | Old Testament character thrown into the fiery furnace with Meshach and Abednego |
| 36% | LIONSDEN | 8 | Terrifying thing to be thrown into |
| 36% | CHIT | 4 | It may be thrown into a pot |
| 36% | HATS | 4 | They may be thrown into the ring |
| 35% | NET | 3 | Fishing equipment that is thrown into the water |
| 35% | PLOP | 4 | Sound of a rock being thrown into a pond |
| 35% | DISCGOLF | 8 | Sport in which frisbees are thrown into a basket |
| 35% | HANDBALL | 8 | Team sport where round object is thrown into goal |
| 35% | LEI | 3 | Fragrant necklace that might be thrown into the sea |
| 34% | TEA | 3 | It was thrown into the harbor in a 1773 "party" |
| 34% | ABANDON | 7 | Leave high and dry ... or, when divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues are encompassed by |
| 33% | PARENS | 6 | What “(” and “)” are, for short |
| 32% | ROBERTFROSTPOEM | 15 | What 17- and 39-Across is |
| 32% | ICED | 4 | What some cookies and coffee are |
| 32% | SEEDED | 6 | What some berries and breads are |
| 32% | ASCETICS | 8 | What many monks and yogis are |
| 32% | MAGICIANSTRICKS | 15 | What 20- and 37-Across are |
| 32% | KEYLESSENTRY | 12 | Modern way into a building, and what each answer to 20-, 29-, and 43-Across needs to be to match its clue? |
| 32% | DODGEBALL | 9 | Sport where balls are thrown and must be avoided |
| 32% | REALNAMES | 9 | What Voltaire and Mark Twain were not |
| 32% | DIPS | 4 | What potato chips are sometimes lowered into |
| 32% | ALPHABETICORDER | 15 | been have into put these What words |
| 32% | TIGER | 5 | What Hobbes is, in "Calvin and Hobbes" |
| 32% | LIVE | 4 | What Kelly and Ryan's show is |
| 32% | CRYSTALS | 8 | What amethysts and rock candy both are |
| 32% | HAIR | 4 | What can be cut and blow-dried |
| 32% | WIDOW | 5 | What Jackie was to Kennedy and Onassis |
| 32% | HAIR | 4 | What whiskers and porcupine quills are, essentially |
| 32% | BOROS | 5 | What Bklyn. and Staten I. are |