| 100% | TURKEYTROT | 10 | Dance to ragtime music in which birdlike movements are made with the shoulders and upper body |
| 30% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which the object is to end with zero points |
| 29% | CAKE | 4 | (2/5) "Ann the maid, says, 'I was in the kitchen making a ___ (treat with icing) all morning and didn't have time to visit the mistress' chambers.'" |
| 29% | CUFFING | 7 | “Season” in which single people couple up to stave off the loneliness and cold of winter |
| 28% | ROCKANDROLL | 11 | With 60-Across, institution in which 19-, 25- and 37-Across are (thus far) the only three women ever to be inducted twice |
| 28% | JADEITE | 7 | Green mineral which was used to make axe heads in the Stone Age |
| 28% | BED | 3 | Place with pillows and blankets that is hard to leave in the morning |
| 28% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in which my kid replaced the frosting with cheese and tried to get me to eat it |
| 28% | OLDMAID | 7 | Victorian card game in which players collect pairs and try not to be left with a penalty card |
| 28% | LOLA | 4 | The "she" in the lyric "She walked up to me and she asked me to dance" |
| 28% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 28% | OLD | 3 | & 20D Victorian card game in which players collect pairs and try not to be left with a penalty card |
| 28% | RAGNAROK | 8 | Superhero film "Thor: ___," which is a sequel to the "Thor" films, and released in 2017 |
| 27% | IBEFOREE | 8 | General spelling rule, and what must be imagined in the starred clues to make them accurate |
| 27% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Word that must be added to 1-, 8-, 65- and 66-Across for their clues to make sense [with a visual hint in the grid] |
| 27% | REEKS | 5 | Smells like my son was trying to make wolverine attractant with his chemistry set in the basement |
| 27% | CZECH | 5 | Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" |
| 27% | LADY | 4 | "___ Lazarus," 1965 poem by Sylvia Plath in which she alludes to the mythical phoenix and which was included in the collection "Ariel" |
| 27% | FISHHEADS | 9 | 1978 novelty song with the line "Eat them up! Yum!" ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues can be |
| 27% | SKATEBOARDING | 13 | Sport that will make its debut in the 2020 Olympics and involves riding and performing tricks on a narrow board with wheels |
| 27% | ASTROLOGY | 9 | Study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies in order to divine information about human affairs |
| 27% | ICE | 3 | ___ hockey, Winter Olympic sport in which two teams use sticks to shoot a rubber puck and was first played in the 19th century |
| 27% | HAND | 4 | Body part with fingers ... and something one uses to brush off imaginary dust from their shoulder in a gesture of confidence |
| 26% | COLUMBIA | 8 | ___ University, located in Upper Manhattan, which is a member of the Ivy league and has a crown in their logo |
| 26% | RICHARD | 7 | ___ Rodgers, composer with works like "Oklahoma!' and "The Sound of Music" who was the first person to win the EGOT |
| 26% | RUMI | 4 | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera “Monsters of Grace” |
| 26% | PRESSURE | 8 | 24-Down single with the lyrics "But here you are in the ninth / Two men out and three men on / Nowhere to look but inside" |
| 26% | CLEO | 4 | British singer Laine who is the only woman to be nominated for Grammys in the jazz, popular, and classical music categories |
| 26% | ROLL | 4 | "Rock and ___ Music," hit released by The Beach Boys in 1976 which was a cover of a song by Chuck Berry |