| 100% | ATACAMA | 7 | Desert whose soil has been compared to that of Mars |
| 39% | CASTIRON | 8 | Type of pan that has to be seasoned |
| 38% | OTTER | 5 | Mammal name whose etymology is akin to that of "water" |
| 37% | SNOWED | 6 | "To be ___ under," weather related idiom that means to have alot of work |
| 34% | NATURALGAS | 10 | Trinidad and Tobago resource that has led to it be one of the richest western countries per capita |
| 34% | NET | 3 | Fishing mesh that you would want to have with you if you were stranded on a deserted island |
| 34% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | City that had the final letter of its name removed in 1891, only to be restored in 1911 |
| 34% | PHONE | 5 | Satellite ___, communication device that you would want to have with you if you were stranded on a deserted island |
| 34% | SEEDS | 5 | Plant-growing necessities that you would want to have with you if you were stranded on a deserted island |
| 33% | CHAOS | 5 | Controlled ___, oxymoron used to describe a situation that seems to be out of control but has some factors in control |
| 33% | BRACKET | 7 | Where teams that have little-to-no chance of winning are found |
| 33% | 7BC | 3 | Year that Dionysius of Halicarnassus is believed to have died |
| 32% | FRANKSINATRA | 12 | Singer whose rendition of the 1924 song "It Had to Be You" was the theme for "When Harry Met Sally" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | OWES | 4 | Has debts that need to be paid |
| 32% | OWE | 3 | Have bills that need to be paid |
| 32% | ONBAIL | 6 | Having paid to be out of jail |
| 32% | GOBI | 4 | Desert that was once home to Tarbosaurus bataar |
| 32% | OWE | 3 | Have a sum of money to be repaid |
| 32% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 32% | CHECK | 5 | Payment that has to be endorsed |
| 31% | REDO | 4 | Having to repeat something that has already been done |
| 31% | BACKFIRE | 8 | To have the opposite effect of what was intended |
| 31% | NET | 3 | Fishing equipment that has to be cast |
| 31% | DEBT | 4 | Amount that has to be paid off |
| 31% | OWING | 5 | Money that has yet to be paid |
| 31% | AISLES | 6 | Things that may have to be cleared |
| 31% | ATOM | 4 | Length of time that was compared to the "twinkling of an eye" in the Greek text of Paul's 1 Corinthians 15:52 |
| 31% | DECKTHEHALLS | 12 | Song whose refrain has been prefixed to nine answers in this puzzle |
| 31% | BLISTERED | 9 | Of skin that is broken and sore due to friction |
| 31% | AREWEALONE | 10 | Question of humanity that has never been answered |