| 100% | ARAL | 4 | “___: The Lost Sea” (documentary about an ecological disaster in Central Asia) |
| 36% | ARAL | 4 | International Fund for Saving the ___ Sea (ecological organization based in Central Asia) |
| 36% | ARAL | 4 | Former sea in Central Asia |
| 36% | ARAL | 4 | Shrinking sea in Central Asia |
| 35% | PRIDE | 5 | 2021 documentary about LGBTQ rights in the U.S. |
| 35% | DANANG | 6 | Port in central Vietnam on the South China Sea |
| 35% | THETHING | 8 | John Carpenter film about an alien in the Arctic |
| 35% | ODER | 4 | River in Central Europe that ends in the Baltic Sea |
| 34% | ARAL | 4 | Shrinking sea located in Central Asia |
| 34% | QUINCY | 6 | 2018 music documentary about an American musician who was nominated for the Grammy 80 times |
| 34% | ELBE | 4 | River in central Europe that flows to the North Sea at Hamburg |
| 33% | NUCLEUS | 7 | Dense central structure in the middle of an atom |
| 32% | ORCA | 4 | Black-and-white sea creature featured in the documentary "Blackfish" |
| 32% | OCTO | 4 | Prefix in the name of an eight-armed sea animal |
| 32% | CHAPLIN | 7 | 1992 biopic about an early film star starring Robert Downey Jr. in the title role |
| 32% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Colm Tóibín novel about an Irish woman who moves to New York in the 1950s |
| 32% | XISTHE | 6 | With 46-Across, an observation about the game in this grid |
| 32% | SURPRISE | 8 | An event where the main person is kept in the dark about the party |
| 31% | STAN | 4 | "Land," in central Asia |
| 31% | NERO | 4 | His dying words were "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 31% | NERO | 4 | His last words were "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 31% | NERO | 4 | His last words were, “What an artist the world is losing in me!” |
| 31% | THESOUTH | 8 | 1990 novel by 38-Across about an Irish woman who moves to Barcelona in the 1950s (2 wds.) |
| 31% | BLAIR | 5 | "The ___ Witch Project," psychological horror film where a documentary crew gets lost in the woods |
| 30% | SHAN | 4 | Tien ___ mountains in central Asia |
| 30% | AMU | 3 | ___ Darya (river in Central Asia) |
| 30% | AMU | 3 | ___ Darya, river in Central Asia |
| 30% | BROOKLYN | 8 | 2009 novel by 38-Across about an Irish woman who moves to New York in the 1950s (2 wds.) |
| 30% | ARALSEA | 7 | Rapidly shrinking lake in Central Asia |