| 100% | ENCOUNTER | 9 | Brief __, very English weepie with dirt in the eye |
| 40% | GLARE | 5 | Stare with daggers in the eyes |
| 38% | TROD | 4 | "You may __ me in the very dirt": Angelou |
| 37% | IRIS | 4 | Eye part with pupil in the center |
| 37% | LOOK | 4 | "___ Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's" (memoir by John Elder Robison) |
| 37% | CORNEA | 6 | Part of the eye in contact with a contact lens |
| 37% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye with a pupil in its middle |
| 37% | IRIS | 4 | Eye part with the pupil in its center |
| 36% | CAMPGROUND | 10 | Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters MPG |
| 35% | ELO | 3 | Band with the 1977 hit "Telephone Line," in brief |
| 35% | SNL | 3 | Show with the recurring character Target Lady, in brief |
| 35% | SSNS | 4 | Strings with the pattern XXX-XX-XXXX, in brief |
| 35% | SEE | 3 | Take in with the eyes |
| 35% | WAPO | 4 | Newspaper with the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness," in brief |
| 34% | TROD | 4 | "You may ___ me in the very dirt/But still, like dust, I'll rise" (Angelou) |
| 34% | COKE | 4 | Thomas William —, English agriculturist associated with the Holkham estate in Norfolk |
| 34% | COKE | 4 | Thomas William -, English agriculturist associated with the Holkham estate in Norfolk |
| 34% | SLIM | 4 | With very less fat in the body |
| 34% | AGLOW | 5 | In "The Christmas Song" Nat King Cole sang about the "tiny tots with their eyes all ___" |
| 34% | NRA | 3 | New Deal program with the slogan "We Do Our Part," in brief |
| 33% | SUBJECTIVE | 10 | In the eye of the beholder |
| 33% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 33% | HENRYLYTTON | 11 | English actor associated with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who was knighted in 1930 |
| 33% | IRIS | 4 | Membrane in the eye |
| 33% | FACED | 5 | Looked in the eye |
| 33% | STYE | 4 | Irritation in the eye |
| 33% | OPTIC | 5 | Nerve in the eye |
| 33% | GLEAM | 5 | Twinkle in the eye |
| 33% | ELO | 3 | 1970s-'80s band with the hit "Don't Bring Me Down," in brief |
| 33% | PRIESTLEY | 9 | Joseph —, English chemist born in 1733 often credited with the discovery of oxygen |