| 100% | CONTRETEMPS | 11 | Compound step in ballet to quickly change the direction a dancer is travelling |
| 35% | JETE | 4 | Ballet step in which a dancer springs from one leg and lands on the other |
| 32% | STIRUPDRAMA | 11 | Create tension in a group, and a direction that was followed when forming the answer to each starred clue? |
| 31% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 31% | BATTED | 6 | Stepped up to the plate in a ballpark |
| 31% | BILLYELLIOT | 11 | Dance drama in which Jamie Bell plays a young boy aspiring to become a ballet dancer during the U.K. miners' strike: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ESTE | 4 | Direction in which the sun rises, to a Spanish |
| 30% | INNOVATE | 8 | To introduce changes in the way something is done |
| 30% | NIJINSKY | 8 | Ballet dancer who’s the focus of “Letter to a Man” |
| 30% | CHILDREN | 8 | A nanny is hired to care for __ in the family home |
| 30% | RBI | 3 | In baseball, the plays that allow a run to be scored |
| 30% | CABANA | 6 | Place to change for a dip in the pool |
| 30% | SADIST | 6 | One inclined to be a pain in the ass? |
| 30% | EAST | 4 | Like a step in the right direction? |
| 29% | AREA | 4 | Zip code is given to a specific ___ in the city |
| 29% | OIL | 3 | Liquid that needs to be changed regularly in a car |
| 29% | USHERS | 6 | They will escort you to the seat in a theater |
| 29% | AMENDED | 7 | Made changes to, as a bill in the House of Representatives |
| 29% | NIOBE | 5 | Woman who was changed to a weeping stone in Greek myth |
| 29% | CLOSETOYOU | 10 | Where the Carpenters "long to be" in a 1970 #1 hit |
| 29% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 29% | BIENVENUE | 9 | Word that might be in the introduction to a French textbook |
| 29% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 29% | DELAY | 5 | "There was a ___ in the delivery due to heavy rainfall." (was late) |
| 29% | LAW | 3 | What the bill wants to be, in "I'm Just a Bill" |
| 29% | EPCOTCENTER | 11 | Attraction in 69-Across designed to be a "city of the future" |
| 29% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | It's estimated to be a foot in the next 25 years |
| 29% | THEBOSS | 7 | What James Brown “paid the cost to be,” in a 1973 song |
| 29% | TYRA | 4 | Emily ___, "Code Black" actress who trained in ballet and started as a dancer at the Boston Ballet |
| 28% | REROUTE | 7 | Change the direction of a parcel |