| 100% | MIT | 3 | Boston-area school that graduates lots of engineers: Abbr. |
| 71% | MIT | 3 | New England school that graduates a lot of computer science and engineering majors: Abbr. |
| 58% | MIT | 3 | Boston-area school that Benjamin Netanyahu graduated from: Abbr. |
| 46% | MIT | 3 | Boston-area school that has a rivalry with Caltech: Abbr. |
| 43% | FSU | 3 | School that manages the Ringling Museum of Art: Abbr. |
| 42% | HOMEPLATE | 9 | Area that sees lots of swinging? |
| 41% | JRS | 3 | Those in their third year of high school: Abbr. |
| 40% | REEF | 4 | Area with lots of schools |
| 39% | MIT | 3 | Boston university that architect I.M. Pei graduated from: Abbr. |
| 39% | IRS | 3 | Agency that gets lots of mail postmarked April 15: Abbr. |
| 38% | MIT | 3 | School near Boston that hosts a "Mystery Hunt" every January: Abbr. |
| 37% | MIT | 3 | Boston-area school in "Good Will Hunting": Abbr. |
| 37% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school that received the most applications of any US school in 2017: Abbr. |
| 37% | PTA | 3 | Group that encourages participation of parents in school: Abbr. |
| 36% | GRE | 3 | Test that students have to take for getting into graduate schools: Abbr. |
| 36% | MIT | 3 | The Engineers of the NCAA, whose home games are played near Boston: Abbr. |
| 36% | MIT | 3 | Boston-area school with a competitive robotics team: Abbr. |
| 35% | CTU | 3 | One of the largest Roman Catholic graduate schools of theology, located in Chicago: Abbr. |
| 35% | MIT | 3 | Boston-area university whose teams are called the Engineers: Abbr. |
| 35% | IRS | 3 | Government agency that lots of people grumble about annually: Abbr. |
| 35% | APR | 3 | Month that begins with a lot of pranks: Abbr. |
| 35% | CIV | 3 | Kind of engineer: Abbr. |
| 35% | MECH | 4 | Branch of engineering: Abbr. |
| 34% | ENDZONE | 7 | Area that sees lots of spikes, in a way...and a feature in each answer to the six starred clues |
| 34% | ETAL | 4 | Abbr. that can replace a lot of things |
| 34% | TSA | 3 | Organization that does a lot of scanning at airports: Abbr. |
| 33% | SLU | 3 | Missouri school that is the oldest college west of the Mississippi River (Abbr.) |
| 33% | LSI | 3 | Lots of transistors integrated on a single microchip: Abbr. |
| 33% | ENGS | 4 | Lots of R.P.I. grads: Abbr. |
| 33% | NOR | 3 | Country that takes a lot of medals in the Winter Olympics: Abbr. |