| 100% | TBALL | 5 | Bats are smaller than normal in it |
| 47% | ERIE | 4 | Of the Great Lakes, only Ontario is smaller than it |
| 46% | SIDEMIRROR | 10 | Objects in it are closer than they appear |
| 44% | VATICAN | 7 | It is the smallest country in the world |
| 44% | COAT | 4 | It may be checked, in more ways than one |
| 44% | YARN | 4 | It may be spun, in more ways than one |
| 43% | HILL | 4 | Elevated natural feature smaller than a mountain that is usually curved in shape |
| 42% | UNDERSIZED | 10 | Smaller than normal |
| 41% | RHINO | 5 | Animal whose horn is worth more than its weight in gold |
| 41% | RISEN | 5 | Taller than it was when you put it in the oven, say |
| 40% | MINIATURE | 9 | Much smaller than normal |
| 40% | OBJ | 3 | It is closer than it appears in a vehicle's mirror, for short |
| 40% | SHADOW | 6 | What's longer in the morning and evening than it is at noon |
| 40% | CREEK | 5 | "Schitt's ___," comedy sitcom named after the small town it is set in |
| 39% | RABIES | 6 | Joseph Lennox Pawan showed it could be transmitted by vampire bats in the 1930s |
| 39% | ONES | 4 | Bills that are smaller than fives |
| 38% | TATER | 5 | It might be mashed (in more ways than one!) |
| 38% | CREEKS | 6 | Minor rivers that are smaller than streams |
| 38% | VANS | 4 | Delivery vehicles that are smaller than trucks |
| 38% | BOULDER | 7 | City that, despite its name, is smaller than Little Rock |
| 37% | TOWN | 4 | A settlement that is smaller than a city |
| 37% | TITANIC | 7 | British ship whose wreckage was found in 1985, more than 70 years after it sank in 1912 |
| 37% | PETITE | 6 | Smaller than small, in dress sizes |
| 37% | NANO | 4 | 33-Across version that was smaller than a Mini |
| 36% | RISSOLE | 7 | Snack is small in part |
| 36% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword, in a proverb |
| 36% | SEA | 3 | Vast body of water which is smaller than an ocean |
| 36% | YODASPEAK | 9 | Written in it this clue is |
| 36% | ESTA | 4 | It is in Peru |
| 36% | ESTA | 4 | It is in Spain |