| 100% | GRIMDARK | 8 | Fantasy genre in which life is nasty, brutish, and short |
| 41% | ASL | 3 | Speech system in which 6 and W are the same, for short |
| 38% | JUJU | 4 | Musical genre which originated in Nigeria and is based on the traditional Yoruba percussion |
| 36% | POLICEDRAMA | 11 | TV genre in which 69-Across might be said |
| 35% | AMA | 3 | Reddit genre in which Barack Obama and Madonna have participated: Abbr. |
| 35% | ART | 3 | Life is short and this is long, per Hippocrates |
| 35% | ENG | 3 | Language in which this clue is written, for short |
| 35% | ECON | 4 | Class in which stability might be studied, for short |
| 34% | SHEE | 4 | Fairy-like Irish being that lives underground or in an alternate universe and which is sometimes preceded by the word "ban" |
| 34% | STEM | 4 | Subjects in which women have traditionally been underrepresented, for short |
| 34% | ASCII | 5 | System in which 33 and 63 are "!" and "?" |
| 34% | CANASTA | 7 | Game in which jokers and twos are wild |
| 34% | TURNOVER | 8 | Rate in which employees leave and are replaced |
| 34% | HINDUISM | 8 | Religion in which atman and dharma are concepts |
| 34% | PACIFIC | 7 | Ocean in which Fiji and Tonga are located |
| 34% | NAMIBIA | 7 | Country in which Windhoek and Rundu are cities |
| 34% | EMO | 3 | Genre in which some musicians may express remorse, and a word aptly found inside "remorse" |
| 34% | THANKSOBAMA | 11 | Meme in which life’s inconveniences are blamed on the forty-fourth President |
| 34% | LADY | 4 | "___ Susan," Jane Austen's short epistolary novel which was published in 1871 and features characters like Charles and Catherine Vernon: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ESL | 3 | Educ. course in which grammar and idioms are taught |
| 34% | SINGAPORE | 9 | Country in which English and Mandarin are official languages |
| 34% | NEGATIVE | 8 | Film print in which light and dark are reversed |
| 34% | KANSAS | 6 | US state in which Topeka and Wichita are found |
| 34% | ADAR | 4 | Month in which Moses reputedly was born and died |
| 34% | WELSH | 5 | Language in which "w" and "y" are considered vowels |
| 34% | FORTIES | 7 | Decade in which CORE and the UNCF were founded |
| 34% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Game in which Q and Z are worth 10 |
| 34% | POSTIRONY | 9 | Like humor in which sincerity and detachment are entangled |
| 33% | DOGE | 4 | Meme genre in which a Shiba Inu might say "many fun" and "such games" |
| 33% | KATEWILHELM | 11 | "The Mile-Long Spaceship" short-story writer who was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2003 (2 wds.) |