| 100% | AMYGDALAS | 9 | Brain parts involved in the fight-or-flight response |
| 48% | HIPS | 4 | Body parts involved in the macarena |
| 43% | FRONTAL | 7 | The brain lobe involved in motor function |
| 42% | LOBE | 4 | Part of the brain or ear |
| 40% | LOBE | 4 | "Frontal" or "temporal" part of the brain |
| 40% | LOBE | 4 | "Parietal" or "occipital" part of the brain |
| 39% | LOBE | 4 | Part of the ear or brain |
| 39% | CENTRE | 6 | Part or point in the middle |
| 39% | FLAPPER | 7 | Fashionable woman in the 1920s, or part of a toilet valve |
| 39% | LOBE | 4 | Part of the ear or the brain |
| 38% | AREA | 4 | Wernicke's ___ is part of the brain involved in the comprehension of written and spoken language |
| 38% | TOES | 4 | Parts involved in pedicures |
| 38% | ROLEO | 5 | Lumberjack competition named in part for the log motion it involves |
| 38% | MENTAL | 6 | Related to anything in the mind or the brain |
| 37% | NOUN | 4 | Fight or flight, e.g.? |
| 37% | TRUCE | 5 | Stay in the fight? |
| 36% | TOE | 3 | Body part involved in kicking |
| 36% | DIAPHRAGM | 9 | Body part involved in expiration |
| 36% | IRA | 3 | Grp. involved in the Troubles |
| 36% | DACAPO | 6 | Musical instruction that a piece be repeated, in part or whole, from the beginning |
| 35% | EYELID | 6 | Body part involved in a wink |
| 35% | ACLU | 4 | Org. involved in the Scopes trial |
| 35% | RAF | 3 | Org. involved in the gulf war |
| 35% | NSC | 3 | Grp. involved in the Abbottabad raid |
| 35% | ATF | 3 | Org. involved in the Waco Siege |
| 35% | SWISS | 5 | Deli cheese ... or, in three parts, a hint to the five longest across puzzle answers |
| 35% | WORD | 4 | Part of a sentence, or change a letter in 22a to get the answer |
| 35% | AMYGDALA | 8 | Almond-shaped brain part involved with emotions |
| 35% | ADRENAL | 7 | Gland that produces fight or flight hormone |
| 35% | MARIEANTOINETTE | 15 | Royal involved in the Diamond Necklace Affair |