| 100% | IMALIVE | 7 | “How did that fall from a sixty-story building while being stung by a hundred scorpions not kill me?!” |
| 29% | ITSMAGIC | 8 | "How I did that trick will remain a mystery" |
| 28% | ZOLA | 4 | 2020 movie adapted from a Twitter thread that begins, "Y'all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out???????" |
| 27% | BEEP | 4 | Notification from a microwave that your food is done |
| 27% | LOOKWHATYOU | 11 | "___ Made Me Do," the first single from 16a that was released late August and is a huge hit: 3 wds. |
| 26% | GERM | 4 | Something that might be killed by a disinfectant |
| 26% | SCOUT | 5 | ___ Finch, heroine from "To Kill a Mockingbird" who said "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." |
| 26% | BRAND | 5 | ___ image, identity that is built up by a company via marketing |
| 25% | DOMBEYANDSON | 12 | Novel by Charles Dickens that deals with the story of a shipping firm owner who is frustrated at not having a son to take care of the business: 3 wds. |
| 25% | WANDER | 6 | "...Not all those who ___ are lost...," quote from "The Lord of the Rings" that is part of a poem written by Bilbo Baggins |
| 25% | CATPERSON | 9 | 2023 film starring Emilia Jones that was adapted from a viral 2017 short story |
| 25% | RIN | 3 | ___ Tin Tin (canine film star that was rescued from a World War I battlefield) |
| 25% | HEAD | 4 | "In My ___," song by Ariana Grande from her 2019 album that was accompanied by a video produced by Vogue |
| 25% | TIKTOK | 6 | App that's at risk of being banned by a House measure if it's not sold by ByteDance |
| 24% | ASH | 3 | Stuff that falls from a cigarette |
| 24% | ARK | 3 | Vessel built by a man who was at least five hundred years old, per Genesis |
| 24% | SOLARIS | 7 | Planet from the eponymous book that is depicted as covered by a single massive ocean |
| 24% | ARK | 3 | Biblical boat built by Noah that is a homophone of 25d |
| 24% | NODOFF | 6 | At midnight when I'm still writing clues for the puzzle that absolutely has to be in Florida by 8:00 am, I have a tendency to do this |
| 24% | PARASAIL | 8 | Fly while being pulled by a motorboat |
| 24% | DOH | 3 | "How did I not know that?!?" |
| 24% | DOH | 3 | "How did I not know that?!" |
| 24% | MEANS | 5 | "What It ___ When a Man Falls from the Sky" (short story collection by Lesley Nneka Arimah) |
| 24% | SLOP | 4 | Waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand |
| 24% | LOCKEDINACELLO | 14 | How a guy who stole from the NY Symphony was forced to do time? |
| 24% | DOUBLE | 6 | "A ___ Barrelled Detective Story," short story by Mark Twain that was written as a parody of Sherlock Holmes |
| 24% | STAND | 5 | "___ by Me," 1986 adventure film starring Wil Wheaton, that took its title from a Ben E. King song |
| 24% | ASH | 3 | Powdery stuff that falls from a burning cigarette |
| 24% | AIGENERATED | 11 | What this puzzle is definitely not, having been created by me, a real and true human being |
| 24% | APPRENTICE | 10 | "Scentless ___," song by Nirvana that was inspired by Patrick Suskind's "Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer" |