| 100% | WRITTENRECORD | 13 | Document of facts or events |
| 52% | HISTORICAL | 10 | Of or concerning past events |
| 51% | EVIDENCE | 8 | Body of facts or information regarding a crime |
| 47% | EXISTENCE | 9 | The fact or state of living or being |
| 45% | PRESENCE | 8 | The state or fact of existing |
| 45% | ARCHIVES | 8 | Collections of historical documents or records |
| 44% | REPORT | 6 | An official account of events or results |
| 44% | RENAMED | 7 | Changed the title of a document or file |
| 44% | ANNEX | 5 | An extra part of a house or document |
| 44% | HISTORY | 7 | A written record or study of human events |
| 44% | PLOT | 4 | Sequence of events in a novel or film |
| 43% | RINGS | 5 | Olympics event ... or parts of the Olympics logo |
| 43% | DROP | 4 | * NYE "ball" event or a synonym of 1a |
| 43% | STAT | 4 | Piece of data or fact (abbr) |
| 43% | CASEFILES | 9 | Collections of legal or medical documents |
| 43% | NARRATIVE | 9 | A story; a written or spoken account of events |
| 43% | PLOTTWIST | 9 | Unexpected turn of events in a film or book |
| 42% | EXODUS | 6 | Book of the Bible or an event described in it |
| 42% | PARODY | 6 | Comedy imitation or take-off of a real life event |
| 41% | INSTANCE | 8 | Step or stage viewed as part of a series of events |
| 41% | BACKUP | 6 | Save a copy of a file or document, just in case |
| 41% | SRPRSS | 6 | Unexpected or astonishing events, facts, or things. Abbr. |
| 40% | DOWNLOAD | 8 | Save a copy of a file or document to your own PC |
| 40% | ECLIPSE | 7 | Solar or lunar event when there is a blotting out of light |
| 40% | BOBSLED | 7 | Winter event of 2 or 4 people teams |
| 39% | MORAL | 5 | Significance of a story or event |
| 39% | TSTORMS | 7 | Weather events with lightning, briefly ... or a description of 1 and 13 Across |
| 39% | HOAX | 4 | A fabricated event or piece of news, sometimes done as a practical joke |
| 39% | SPIGOT | 6 | Item that can be part of a turn-off or turn-on event |
| 39% | DATA | 4 | Facts and figures, or numbers. The kind of thing you would store on a hard drive |