| 100% | TORT | 4 | Area of law concerned with civil wrongs |
| 39% | ANC | 3 | Party concerned with civil rights, briefly |
| 39% | TORT | 4 | Civil wrong, in law |
| 39% | BALKANS | 7 | Area of European concern |
| 38% | MORAL | 5 | Concerned with right and wrong |
| 38% | APPALACHIA | 10 | Area of Great Society concern |
| 37% | THERIALTO | 9 | Area of Venice with a famous bridge |
| 37% | MERGERS | 7 | One area of corporate law |
| 36% | AMORAL | 6 | Not concerned with right and wrong |
| 35% | ACLU | 4 | Organization concerned with freedom of speech: Abbr. |
| 35% | RECIDIVISM | 10 | Concern of "three strikes" laws |
| 35% | PIEDMONT | 8 | Area of north-west Italy with Turin as the capital |
| 35% | EMT | 3 | One concerned with matters of the heart: Abbr. |
| 34% | ARTS | 4 | Big area of philanthropy, with "the" |
| 34% | EZRA | 4 | Book concerned with the end of the Babylonian captivity |
| 34% | OSHA | 4 | Agency concerned with the well-being of employees: Abbr. |
| 34% | OTOLOGY | 7 | Branch of medicine concerned with the ear |
| 34% | NEUROLOGY | 9 | Branch of medicine concerned with brain injuries |
| 33% | POET | 4 | Person concerned with rhyme quite a bit of the time |
| 33% | ELLIPSE | 7 | Area south of the White House, with "the" |
| 33% | SOHO | 4 | Manhattan area with lots of galleries |
| 33% | ISAAC | 5 | Newton with three laws of motion |
| 33% | TITLEVII | 8 | Part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act concerned with employment discrimination |
| 33% | PHYCOLOGY | 9 | Branch of botany concerned with seaweeds and other algae |
| 33% | ALTSTADT | 8 | Old town area of Hamburg, with ancient Deichstraße |
| 32% | INRESPECT | 9 | Concerning, with "of" |
| 32% | THRONES | 7 | Game of __, bloody civil war complete with dragons |
| 31% | AESTHETICS | 10 | Branch of philosophy concerned with the study of beauty and taste |
| 31% | SIRISAAC | 8 | With 48-Across, author of the three laws of motion: 2 wds. |