| 100% | PREMOLAR | 8 | Any one of the eight teeth in a human adult situated between the first molars and the canines |
| 37% | CANINE | 6 | Any of the four teeth situated between the incisors and the premolars |
| 36% | WAVEFRONT | 9 | Any one of the concentric circles in a ripple, in physics |
| 34% | PISTON | 6 | One of the eight in a V-8 |
| 34% | ADVENT | 6 | & 18D First day of the liturgical year in Western Christianity, falling on any date between November 27 and December 3 |
| 33% | INCISOR | 7 | One of four front teeth in the upper and lower jaw |
| 32% | HOWIWISH | 8 | With 94- and 72-Across, a mnemonic for the first eight digits of [symbol in the middle of the grid] |
| 32% | OKA | 3 | Site of a 78 day, 1990 armed standoff in Quebec between the Mohawk First Nation and the Government of Quebec |
| 32% | MEAL | 4 | One of the "hots" in the military slang "three hots and a cot" |
| 32% | FIBULA | 6 | Outer of the two bones of a human leg between the knee and ankle |
| 32% | TED | 3 | Danson who played one of the three men in "Three Men and a Baby" |
| 31% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 31% | BONE | 4 | One of 206 in the adult human body |
| 31% | OCTAVE | 6 | Interval between the first and eighth notes in a musical scale |
| 31% | SSW | 3 | One of the half winds on a compass rose that was named "Ostro-Libeccio" in the 14th and 15th centuries |
| 31% | ZERO | 4 | Any digit in a googol after the first one |
| 31% | DIET | 4 | "Ola! I'm ___ Rite, a dupe of cola! I was introduced in the late 1950s and was one of the first colas with zero calories!" |
| 31% | MOLAR | 5 | Any of the 12 broad-faced grinding teeth in humans |
| 31% | MOLAR | 5 | Any of the twelve broad-faced grinding teeth in humans |
| 31% | RERUN | 5 | Any airing of a TV episode after the first one |
| 30% | TORTOISE | 8 | Shelled reptile and winner of a fabled race that is one of the slowest animals in the world |
| 30% | COHORT | 6 | One of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion |
| 30% | COHORT | 6 | One of the 10 units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion |
| 30% | RITE | 4 | Learning to read and w___ is one of the first things taught in school |
| 30% | BUTCHER | 7 | One of the "three men in a tub" |
| 30% | EXECUTIVE | 9 | One of the top bosses in a company |
| 30% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 30% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |