| 100% | CUPCAKE | 7 | Celebratory frosted treat, and an item that you can bake by following the recipe in 28a, 41a, 46a, 1d, and 36d |
| 30% | TACO | 4 | Folded and stuffed Mexican munchie ... and a snack you can top with the items found at 28a, 41a, 53a, 7d, 34d, and 46d |
| 29% | WEST | 4 | Word after "South" for an airline that is the third-largest in the world and can take you to your travel destination |
| 28% | BOOK | 4 | Common library item that can give you company in the cold |
| 27% | BEATBOXING | 10 | Percussive activity you can imitate by reading the starts of 17-, 23-, 37-, and 49-Across in a loop |
| 26% | SHARP | 5 | In music, an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone |
| 26% | CAKE | 4 | "___ Boss," reality TV series that follows the operations of Carlo's Bake Shop and is hosted by Buddy Valastro |
| 26% | OBJECT | 6 | Item that you can physically see and touch |
| 25% | TRAIN | 5 | Subway vehicle that you can use to see the sights in New York City |
| 25% | FASHIONDESIGNERS | 16 | What you can do by rearranging the letters of 17- and 26-Across |
| 24% | ACTIVITY | 8 | An interactive exercise that you can take part in |
| 24% | UTTER | 5 | Word meaning blurt out, and when you've blurted it, the same word could be followed by nonsense |
| 24% | ONIONBAGEL | 10 | Baked item that may be followed by a breath mint |
| 24% | COLLARNILESHARK | 15 | Arrest a mako in an African river? (and three words that can follow WHITE and BLUE, but not RED) |
| 24% | MUFFIN | 6 | Baked breakfast item that comes in blueberry and chocolate varieties ... and a word that can be slangily used to refer to one's "head" |
| 24% | WALLAH | 6 | Hindustani suffix meaning a person involved in an activity and that can follow punka, dabba, ricksha or chai |
| 24% | TAB | 3 | Browser menu option that can help you go back and forth between different pages in the same 42a |
| 24% | ETAS | 4 | Items that the Amtrak website will tell you, in brief |
| 23% | SQUAT | 5 | Leg workout in which you lower your body as if sitting in an invisible chair, and something that can be a part of your home workout |
| 23% | MAKEAFACE | 9 | Grimace, and what you can do by putting the ends of the starred answers together |
| 23% | BUILDABEAR | 10 | What you can do by combining the last words of 17-, 30- and 44-Across |
| 23% | TRAM | 4 | Aerial streetcar that you could take to cross the East River in New York City |
| 23% | ELBE | 4 | Something that will take you by all the banks in Wittenberg |
| 23% | SNL | 3 | NBC's sketch comedy show that was hosted by the athletes mentioned in 20a, 31a, 1d, 29d, and 42d: Abbr. |
| 23% | GONE | 4 | "___ With the Wind," iconic Hollywood movie that you can watch on the big screen in 1939 |
| 23% | SQUAREPEG | 9 | Item that can’t fit in a round hole, in an idiom |
| 23% | CITRATE | 7 | Salt that can be derived from the acid in lemons and limes |
| 23% | SHEE | 4 | Fairy-like Irish being that lives underground or in an alternate universe and which is sometimes preceded by the word "ban" |
| 23% | AMPHIBIAN | 9 | An animal that can live on land and in water |
| 23% | PLANETS | 7 | *Did you know that, if placed side by side, all the ___ in the solar system would fit in the space between the Earth and the Moon? |