| 100% | RASED | 5 | Demolished to the ground (how a Londoner will spell it?) |
| 44% | SKI | 3 | How a biathlon participant would get to the shooting stations |
| 44% | FALLEQUINOX | 11 | A harvest moon is the full moon closest to it |
| 43% | PITCH | 5 | It has the potential to be a hit |
| 42% | LOCKEDINACELLO | 14 | How a guy who stole from the NY Symphony was forced to do time? |
| 42% | ORANGE | 6 | It is the New Black, according to a Netflix drama |
| 42% | TEE | 3 | Small rubber peg on which a football is placed to raise it off the ground |
| 41% | AJAR | 4 | Answer to the riddle "When is a door not a door? When it's ___" |
| 41% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | It's estimated to be a foot in the next 25 years |
| 40% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 40% | GOOGLE | 6 | Company whose name is spelled with up to 10 O's toward the bottom of its webpages |
| 39% | TREES | 5 | According to the poet's oldest son, it was written "by a window looking down a wooded hill" |
| 39% | FIELDER | 7 | A player whose job it is to catch or stop the ball |
| 39% | YOKE | 4 | It is bound to the necks of a pair of oxen, maybe |
| 39% | LINERNOTE | 9 | It may be a credit to the band |
| 38% | DOWN | 4 | "I am reading a book on the history of glue. It's impossible to put ___!" |
| 38% | NEAT | 4 | How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 38% | ORAL | 4 | Like a contract that's said to be "not worth the paper it's written on" |
| 38% | ALLABOUTEVE | 11 | 1950 movie featuring the line “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” |
| 38% | SHIP | 4 | It's time to plan a trip to distant lands! How are you reaching there? (1/5) Sea transport, like the Grand Princess or Wonder of the Seas |
| 37% | ITGOESUPANDDOWN | 15 | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| 37% | SLID | 4 | Dropped to the ground to go for a base |
| 37% | KNELT | 5 | Lowered oneself to the ground in order to be knighted |
| 37% | LEADINGQUESTION | 15 | It's designed to elicit a certain answer ... or where the end of 17-, 25- and 47-Across may be found |
| 36% | NOONE | 5 | Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who |
| 36% | SEEMS | 5 | "Sorry ___ to Be the Hardest Word," song by Elton John that talks about how difficult it is to apologize sometimes |
| 36% | ONEBASE | 7 | What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit |
| 36% | NAILDOWN | 8 | Fix to the ground using a hammer and pins |
| 36% | RESTORE | 7 | Put back to the way it was |
| 36% | ALIT | 4 | Made it to the ground |