| 100% | SHEEP | 5 | Baa-ing animal whose name stays the same whether baa-ing alone or in a group |
| 82% | MOOSE | 5 | Antlered animal whose name stays the same whether roaming alone or in a group |
| 74% | TUNA | 4 | Canned fish whose name stays the same whether consumed alone or in a group |
| 74% | BUFFALO | 7 | Bovine beast of the Great Plains whose name may stay the same whether grazing alone or in a group |
| 74% | SALMON | 6 | Pink-fleshed fish whose name stays the same whether swimming alone or in a group |
| 74% | DEER | 4 | Bambi's kin whose name stays the same whether wandering alone or in a group |
| 40% | HADES | 5 | God who says "Nobody gets out of my domain, whether alive or dead" in a video game of the same name |
| 37% | HANSON | 6 | Group that made up the word "MMMBop" in a 1997 song of the same name |
| 36% | EWE | 3 | Female animal whose name reads the same forward and backward |
| 36% | EWE | 3 | Farm animal whose name reads the same forward and backward |
| 36% | PUP | 3 | Baby animal whose name reads the same forward and backward |
| 36% | PUP | 3 | Young animal whose name reads the same forward and backward |
| 36% | SENATORS | 8 | Ottawa ___, Canadian ice hockey team in the NHL whose name sounds like a group of politicians |
| 35% | SHANANA | 7 | Doo-wop group whose name comes from the nonsense syllables repeated in "Get a Job" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | AVERAGE | 7 | The mean or standard in a group |
| 35% | ABBA | 4 | Singing group whose name reads the same forwards and backwards |
| 34% | EWES | 4 | Animals whose name sounds like a letter that doesn't appear in its name |
| 33% | BLACK | 5 | With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle |
| 33% | ONCE | 4 | Musical whose name is the number 11 in a foreign language |
| 33% | COMMUNITY | 9 | A group of people living in the same place |
| 33% | TEAM | 4 | Group playing on the same side in a sport |
| 32% | ELON | 4 | University in a town of the same name |
| 32% | OBAMA | 5 | First president whose name ends in a vowel other than E or Y |
| 32% | ASTRO | 5 | M.L.B. player in the same division as a Ranger or Angel |
| 32% | ASS | 3 | Animal whose jawbone Samson used as a weapon in the Bible |
| 32% | ZOOM | 4 | Company whose name became a verb in the 2020s |
| 32% | ORCA | 4 | Animal whose name consists of the postal codes of two states it passes in its migration |
| 32% | EMMYROSSUM | 10 | "Shameless" actress whose first name is the same as a TV award: 2 wds. |
| 31% | OTHELLO | 7 | Moorish general in a Shakespearean tragedy by the same name |
| 31% | MSPACMAN | 8 | Female protagonist in a video game of the same name |