| 100% | WINE | 4 | Beverage often paired based on the meat in a meal |
| 41% | AWOL | 4 | Not on the base, in a way |
| 40% | STRIKEONE | 9 | Ump's call, often based on a sequence found in the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | STAKE | 5 | A portion based on the amount of money invested in a business |
| 38% | ASPIC | 5 | Savoury jelly based on meat or fish stock and set in a mould |
| 38% | BAMBI | 5 | Classic 1942 film based on a book subtitled "A Life in the Woods" |
| 38% | FANTAN | 6 | Chinese gambling game based on guessing the number of items in a pot |
| 38% | SOCK | 4 | One of a pair often lost in the laundry |
| 38% | RASHES | 6 | Sores on the skin, often reddish in color, that cause a lot of itching |
| 37% | DARK | 4 | Like the meat in a chicken drumstick |
| 37% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a book with the subtitle Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century |
| 37% | ROASTPORK | 9 | One of the meats in a Cuban sandwich |
| 37% | ALTEREDCARBON | 13 | Netflix series, based on a cyberpunk novel, set more than 300 years in the future: 2 wds. |
| 37% | MULAN | 5 | 1998 Disney animated movie based on a Chinese folk story depicted in the eponymous 6th-century ballad |
| 36% | FOWL | 4 | Any of the meats in a turducken, e.g. |
| 36% | GUTHRIE | 7 | Arlo ___, singer of "Alice's Restaurant" who starred in a movie of the same name based on Thanksgiving |
| 36% | BILLIONAIRE | 11 | Ansel Elgort's "___ Boys Club" (releasing tomorrow) which is based on a Ponzi scam that happened in the 80s |
| 36% | PATCH | 5 | ___ Adams, character based on a real-life doctor who was played by Robin Williams in the eponymous 1998 film |
| 36% | SENT | 4 | On the way, in a way |
| 36% | ABOARD | 6 | On the way, in a way |
| 35% | THELOSTCITYOFZ | 14 | Charlie Hunnam film based on a 52-Across book subtitled "A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" (5 wds.) |
| 35% | PICNIC | 6 | Outdoor meal often eaten on the grass, at a park |
| 35% | WINE | 4 | Beverage often stored in a cellar |
| 34% | TOFU | 4 | It often takes the place of meat in a vegetarian dish |
| 34% | ADDAMS | 6 | "The ___ Family," multimedia franchise based on a Gothic cartoon family that took over cereal boxes in the '90s |
| 34% | WINE | 4 | Beverage often found in a corked bottle |
| 34% | INTOTHEWILD | 11 | 2007 film starring Emile Hirsch based on a book of the same name by Jon Krakauer set in the Alaskan wilderness: 3 wds. |
| 34% | CLAP | 4 | Turn on the lights, in a way |
| 34% | DAYTRADE | 8 | Gamble on the market, in a way |
| 34% | ETCH | 4 | Put on the surface, in a way |