| 100% | GOLEM | 5 | Clay creature said to have been created by Rabbi Loew of Prague |
| 39% | GRAVITY | 7 | Said to have been discovered by Newton |
| 37% | URSULA | 6 | Saint said to have been martyred by Huns |
| 35% | REDSEA | 6 | It's said to have been parted by Moses |
| 35% | ANKARA | 6 | World capital said to have been founded by King Midas |
| 33% | LIVES | 5 | Cats are said to have nine of them |
| 33% | STMARK | 6 | He is said to have founded the Church of Alexandria |
| 32% | LIVES | 5 | A cat is said to have nine of them |
| 32% | LIVES | 5 | A cat is said to have nine of these |
| 32% | LIVES | 5 | A cat is said to have 60-Across of them |
| 31% | LIVES | 5 | What a cat is said to have nine of |
| 31% | OWLS | 4 | Creatures said to be wise |
| 31% | AARE | 4 | River that loops around a once medieval city believed to have been founded in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen |
| 31% | NINE | 4 | Number of lives cats are said to have |
| 30% | BRA | 3 | Item said to have been burned in protest, once |
| 30% | CERAMICS | 8 | Made of clay that has been hardened by heat |
| 30% | LONERANGER | 10 | Character often said to have been based on Bass Reeves |
| 29% | CORNDOG | 7 | Fried food said to have been invented at the Texas State Fair |
| 29% | NINE | 4 | Number of "lives" a cat is said to have |
| 29% | SKA | 3 | It's said to have been born on Orange Street, in Kingston, Jamaica |
| 29% | IMNOTADOCTOR | 12 | With 40- and 48-Across, much-mocked ad phrase that could have been said by the answers to the four starred clues |
| 29% | STOMACH | 7 | Digestive organ; cows said to have four of them |
| 29% | ORSONWE/NSLLES | 14 | Film director who said "I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time" |
| 28% | ASPS | 4 | Egyptian vipers, one of which is said to have killed Cleopatra |
| 28% | SILVER | 6 | The kind of lining every cloud is said to have |
| 28% | ANEMONE | 7 | Flower said to have sprung from the blood of Adonis |
| 28% | HALLEYSCOMET | 12 | *Celestial sight said to have been a good omen for William the Conqueror in battle |
| 28% | OTTER | 5 | It's said to have the thickest fur of any mammal |
| 28% | ENOS | 4 | Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905 |
| 28% | RAH | 3 | Enthusiastic stadium chant that is created by thousands of sports fans |