| 100% | GIMBAL | 6 | Arrangement of pivoting rings that keeps navigation instruments in a horizontal position at sea or in the air |
| 32% | BELL | 4 | Instrument that is rung, rung at the beginning of a boxing match |
| 32% | QUOITS | 6 | Game in which rings of metal or rope are tossed at a stake in the ground |
| 32% | WHIP | 4 | A long instrument made of rope or leather that you would find in the hands of a lion tamer |
| 29% | SOPRANINO | 9 | Term for a musical instrument such as a recorder or saxophone with the highest pitch of all those in its family |
| 29% | INERTIA | 7 | In science, the property that keeps a body at rest |
| 29% | ESCROW | 6 | A bond or deed kept in the custody of a third party |
| 29% | POSITION | 8 | Pole __, in first position at the start of a race |
| 29% | SUPINE | 6 | Position of one just lying in a field at night watching the heavens |
| 28% | REREDOS | 7 | Screen or wall decoration at the back of an altar in a church |
| 28% | SMOG | 4 | Fog that has combined with excessive smoke in the air, often leading to a lot of lung diseases |
| 27% | ROLEMODEL | 9 | A person that is often looked at as someone to follow in the footsteps of : 2 wds. |
| 27% | CLOCK | 5 | Instrument that hints at the missing parts of certain answers in this puzzle |
| 27% | ELVISHLIVES | 11 | Claim that a language in "The Lord of the Rings" is not extinct? |
| 27% | ANTE | 4 | Money that's put in at the start of a poker hand |
| 27% | ELEANOR | 7 | Rigby who "waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door" |
| 27% | VOLLEYED | 8 | Kept a tennis ball in the air |
| 26% | BUZZER | 6 | Loud noise that marks the end of a quarter or a game in basketball |
| 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% | ASANA | 5 | Yoga position like the ones at 9a and 15d that you will encounter during a day of practicing yoga |
| 26% | JUGGLE | 6 | Keep many balls or projects in the air |
| 26% | RING | 4 | Bell ___, loud chiming sound that signals the start or end of a round in boxing |
| 26% | CHOKE | 5 | Device in a car engine that enriches the fuel-air mixture by restricting the amount of air entering the carburettor |
| 26% | TIMES | 5 | "Fast ___ at Ridgemont High," 1982 film starring Sean Penn that chronicles a year in the lives of high school students |
| 26% | NIP | 3 | Bit of a chill in the air |
| 26% | QUEUE | 5 | Waiting line at the DMV... or a word that sounds like the first letter of 25a |
| 26% | BANDS | 5 | *Elastic loops that you might find snapped or tangled at the bottom of a junk drawer |
| 26% | EXPRESSIONISM | 13 | Art movement that originated in Germany at the beginning of 20th century which is characterized by distorting or exaggerating the subject |
| 26% | INSTANT | 7 | ___ replay, quick video clip of a play that's broadcasted, and a popular break-time sight in the NBA or MLB |
| 26% | LAP | 3 | ___ steel guitar, 6-stringed guitar variant that is played in a horizontal position |