| 100% | ERG | 3 | Area of the desert that's wind-swept with no vegetation and exists on Venus, Mars and Titan |
| 32% | CITY | 4 | TV series "Sex and the ___" with Sarah Jessica Parker that is based on Candace Bushnell's novel of the same name |
| 32% | FEATHERS | 8 | Lightweight bits of a bird's wing that might float and get carried away with the wind |
| 32% | WHY | 3 | TV series "13 Reasons ___" with Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford that is based on Jay Asher's novel of the same name |
| 32% | BIGLITTLELIES | 13 | TV series with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman that is based on Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name: 3 wds. |
| 31% | LIARS | 5 | TV series "Pretty Little ___" with Lucy Hale and Troian Bellisario that is based on Sara Shepard's novel series of the same name |
| 31% | GOSSIPGIRL | 10 | TV series with Blake Lively and Leighton Meester that is based on Cecily von Ziegesar's novel of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 31% | THROAT | 6 | Part of the body that's with ear and nose in ENT |
| 31% | ALEE | 4 | On the side of a ship that's away from the wind |
| 30% | OSAGE | 5 | 276-mile-long Missouri river that the Harry S. Truman Reservoir and the Lake of the Ozarks sits on |
| 30% | SSW | 3 | One of the half winds on a compass rose that was named "Ostro-Libeccio" in the 14th and 15th centuries |
| 29% | SEAMIEST | 8 | Most squalid area that's on the wrong side of the tracks |
| 29% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 28% | ATLAS | 5 | Titan with the weight of the world on his shoulders? |
| 28% | PALATE | 6 | The roof of the mouth, with soft and hard areas |
| 28% | BEASHAMEDTO | 11 | With 24-, 38-, 52-, and 61-Across, Horace Mann quote that's the motto of Antioch College |
| 28% | DIMPLES | 7 | Tiny indents on a golf ball that provide control of the ball's trajectory, flight, and spin |
| 28% | FROZEN | 6 | 1998 song by Madonna that peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 with lyrics about a cold and emotionless man |
| 28% | NEAT | 4 | *"Dimple Pinch, ___," Walter White's go-to order of whiskey with no mixer on the show "Breaking Bad" |
| 27% | GOVAN | 5 | Area of Glasgow formerly associated with the weaving, coal and shipbuilding industries |
| 27% | WARREN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who played Clyde, one of the title characters on the run in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 27% | ABC | 3 | Industrial area of Sao Paulo, Brazil, that's home to many auto manufacturers and is known as the "___ Region" |
| 27% | ARAL | 4 | Area that was once the world's fourth largest lake and is now partly the Aralkum Desert |
| 27% | ALEXANDERPOPE | 13 | Author of the verse that starts with the beginnings of 20-, 34- and 42-Across |
| 27% | SHIRT | 5 | Western ___, piece of men's clothing with a stylized yoke on the front and back |
| 27% | GEODESY | 7 | That branch of mathematics dealing with the size and shape of the earth |
| 27% | SUO | 3 | Name of the quarterly journal that publishes articles on bogs, wetlands and peat |
| 27% | PRIMEREALESTATE | 15 | Asset that's all about "location, location, location" ... with a hint to the starts of 21-, 26- and 49-Across |
| 27% | MONTHOFMAYBE | 12 | Part of the year that's filled with possibility? |
| 27% | INA | 3 | With 60-Down, on one's game ... and hint to the start of this puzzle's longest answers |