| 100% | UPS | 3 | 46-megawatt Battery Electric Storage System (BESS), in Fairbanks, AK that comes on in electrical outages is essentially one of these (abbr.) |
| 26% | ASHRAM | 6 | In the Mahabharata, it's stated that a youthful Krishna was sent to see Sand?pan? Muni at one of these |
| 26% | OCEAN | 5 | In June of this year NASA reported that exoplanets with one of these may actually be quite common |
| 26% | TIBER | 5 | Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 BC on the banks of this river |
| 26% | BLT | 3 | Bob Villeneuve of Maple Leaf Foods prepared one of these that was 227 feet, 7 inches in length in July 2014 |
| 25% | SSW | 3 | One of the half winds on a compass rose that was named "Ostro-Libeccio" in the 14th and 15th centuries |
| 25% | ETC | 3 | E-ZPass as used on the MA Turnpike and VA's Midtown Tunnel/US Route 58 is one of these fee transfer systems |
| 25% | RACE | 4 | The next one of these will start in Paris on September 5th, 2021 and end (hopefully) on November 16th, 2021 at Dakar, Senegal |
| 25% | MBA | 3 | Degree that started materialising in the early 20's, and is one of the most sought after courses nowadays : Abbr. |
| 25% | LES | 3 | "___ Miserables," musical based on Victor Hugo's novel that is one of the longest-running musicals in the West End |
| 25% | PLEBE | 5 | Ike was one of these in 1911 |
| 25% | DEATHVALLEY | 11 | One of the hottest places on Earth, this place is home to Badwater Basin, point of lowest elevation in North America: 2 wds. |
| 25% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 24% | SKEWER | 6 | Shish Kabob is meat roasted on one of these |
| 24% | HANDMAID | 8 | Offred was one of these in Atwood's novel |
| 24% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 24% | DRYEYE | 6 | It's said that there is not a single one of these "in the house" during a sad movie |
| 24% | PLANET | 6 | One of these can be found reading counterclockwise somewhere in each concentric ring |
| 24% | LAGOON | 6 | A body of water; Venice is located in one of these |
| 24% | SMILE | 5 | Let one of these be your umbrella on a rainy day |
| 24% | HATBOX | 6 | Storage item ... or one of six in this puzzle? |
| 24% | SCOLD | 5 | Being a public one of these remained on the UK statute books until 1967 |
| 23% | KOOL | 4 | Get Down On It was one of this funky gang's hits |
| 23% | OUTS | 4 | In baseball there are three of these in one inning |
| 23% | SEN | 3 | Kelly Loeffler of GA is the most recent one of these, in brief |
| 23% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 23% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 23% | EGGS | 4 | One of the focuses of Oology that are laid in nests |
| 23% | BRECKS | 6 | One of the oldest gardening companies that was founded in 1818 |
| 23% | LINER | 5 | "Queen Mary 2," now docked at Southampton, is the last operating ship that was originally one of these |