| 100% | BELOW | 5 | Above or ___ |
| 94% | ATOP | 4 | Above or upon |
| 92% | HEREIN | 6 | Above or below preceder |
| 83% | LATITUDE | 8 | Distance above or below the equator |
| 79% | PAR | 3 | Above ___ (better than usual or expected) |
| 77% | ARCHES | 6 | Curves above windows or doors |
| 75% | HEMLINE | 7 | In a dress, this falls above or below the knee |
| 75% | NONEOF | 6 | Lead-in to "the above" or "your business" |
| 75% | TRANSOM | 7 | Crosspiece above a door or window |
| 73% | PAREN | 5 | Figure above 9 or 0, for short |
| 73% | ONENINTH | 8 | Iceberg portion above water, more or less |
| 71% | ADD | 3 | ''. . . above our poor power to __ or detract'': Gettysburg Address |
| 71% | PAREN | 5 | Figure above a 9 or 0, for short |
| 71% | OVERPASS | 8 | A bridge above a railway line or road |
| 70% | AGE | 3 | 100 or above, for a centenarian |
| 70% | BUST | 4 | Reach 22 or above in blackjack |
| 69% | AIRSPACE | 8 | Aerial territory above a country or area of land |
| 66% | BROW | 4 | Top of a hill or above the eye |
| 64% | PREFER | 6 | To want or like something above other similar items |
| 63% | OPINION | 7 | Label above a Gail Collins or David Brooks column on nytimes.com |
| 62% | POOL | 4 | Backyard feature that might be in-ground or above-ground |
| 59% | OUTOFBODYEXPERIENCE | 19 | Viewing oneself from above, say, or a hint to what the shaded spaces represent |
| 56% | REEF | 4 | Rock or coral just above or below the sea |
| 50% | BABE | 4 | Ruth or |
| 50% | SEVENTHHEAVEN | 13 | Total bliss ... or, when read in three parts, a description of the region above this grid? |
| 50% | UNDEROVER | 9 | Dice game in which players bet on whether the outcome will be below or above seven |
| 50% | SLASH | 5 | / or |
| 49% | OVER | 4 | Above |
| 49% | ATOP | 4 | Above |
| 49% | ITALL | 5 | Above ___ |