| 100% | SECEDE | 6 | Break away, like the CSA states |
| 48% | PULLAHEAD | 9 | Break away from the pack |
| 48% | GOSOLO | 6 | Break away from the band |
| 48% | BICAMERAL | 9 | Like the United States legislature |
| 48% | DECO | 4 | Like the Empire State Building |
| 48% | ARTDECO | 7 | Like the Empire State Building |
| 47% | BLDG | 4 | Like the Empire State, for short |
| 45% | ONEACT | 6 | Like the musical "Come From Away" or "Six" |
| 45% | AVOID | 5 | ___ like the plague (stay far away from) |
| 44% | HOMEMADE | 8 | Like the jams and jellies at a state fair |
| 44% | AGLOW | 5 | Like the top of the Empire State Building at night |
| 42% | DIGESTED | 8 | Broken down, like food in the body |
| 42% | ABSENCE | 7 | The state of being away from a place |
| 41% | SUMMERY | 7 | Like the weather when it's time to break out the rosé, say |
| 41% | USA | 3 | Country that broke away from England in the 18th century: Abbr. |
| 41% | THIRD | 5 | Like New Jersey among states admitted to the Union |
| 41% | UNSAID | 6 | Like words to the one who got away, perhaps |
| 41% | EBB | 3 | Dwindle or fall away, like the tide |
| 41% | TRICKSTER | 9 | Character, like Loki, who breaks the rules |
| 40% | SEVENTH | 7 | Like Maryland, in order of states admitted to the Union |
| 40% | TENTH | 5 | Like Virginia among states to ratify the Constitution |
| 39% | ACTNORMAL | 9 | “Pretend like we didn’t just break the vase” |
| 39% | LAM | 3 | On the ___ (running away, like a fugitive) |
| 38% | LUTHERAN | 8 | Like the carol "Away in a Manger," originally |
| 38% | APT | 3 | Like the name of Justice Mary Yu, officiant of the first same-sex marriages in Washington State |
| 36% | ERODED | 6 | Eaten away, like the first words of 17-, 31-, 48- and 65-Across in order? |
| 36% | HITECH | 6 | Like state-of-the-art gadgetry |
| 36% | SECEDE | 6 | Break away |
| 36% | CHIP | 4 | Break away |
| 36% | COMEOFF | 7 | Break away |