| 100% | WTF | 3 | Expression of shock that would be vulgar if it wasn't abbreviated |
| 41% | EGG | 3 | Food item that will float in a bowl of water if it's old |
| 37% | GRIN | 4 | Expression that seems like it would be the opposite of 5-Across? |
| 37% | LIE | 3 | Detector that will prove if it's the truth |
| 34% | IFEELDIRTY | 10 | "That wasn't exactly honorable of me, was it" |
| 34% | YEA | 3 | Positive vote that would be a unit of time if you added an R to the end |
| 33% | RUBIDIUM | 8 | Silvery white metal that will melt on a hot day, but not if it's raining |
| 33% | TAIL | 4 | Hindmost part of a T-Rex that is part of its anatomy |
| 31% | NOR | 3 | Logic gate that returns "True" if both of its inputs are false |
| 31% | ICE | 3 | This will send a chill down your spine, if you put it on your spine, of course |
| 30% | TRAGIC | 6 | "Life would be ___ if it weren't funny": Stephen Hawking |
| 30% | TROUPES | 7 | Word that would seem to be a portmanteau of "traveling groups," but isn't |
| 30% | YOU | 3 | "If ___ build it, he will come" (line from "Field of Dreams") |
| 30% | BEANS | 5 | Baked ___, item that would be part of an English breakfast |
| 30% | ENTER | 5 | Key that, if you press it right now, will focus the cursor on the next entry in this puzzle |
| 30% | END | 3 | "This will be the ___ of me!" ("I can't do it!") |
| 29% | SYKES | 5 | Eric —, comedian-writer who authored 2005 volume of biography If I Don't Write It, Nobody Else Will |
| 29% | ERIC | 4 | & 8A Comedian-writer who authored 2005 volume of biography If I Don't Write It, Nobody Else Will |
| 29% | AMP | 3 | Device that would be out of place at a chamber music concert |
| 29% | NET | 3 | Meshy material that would be an aid during a day of fishing |
| 29% | STRAPPEDFORCASH | 15 | Something that you've placed over your shoulder in the hope that it will somehow drag you out of the hole? |
| 29% | ORAL | 4 | Kind of exam that would be apt in dental school? |
| 29% | TONGUE | 6 | A word you can't remember will be on the tip of it |
| 29% | BLIMEY | 6 | Word of surprise that would be expressed by 28a in London? |
| 29% | DECAGON | 7 | If it's regular, each of its angles is 144 degrees |
| 29% | ESC | 3 | Key that will get you out of a window |
| 28% | THEYD | 5 | "___ be doomed, if it weren't for us." ("We helped those people") |
| 28% | YOUAWAKE | 8 | Question that cannot be answered if its answer is "no" |
| 28% | IDOL | 4 | "American ___" (show that will air its final season in 2016) |