| 100% | AMI | 3 | Friend of Descartes ... or, in English, question pondered by Descartes? |
| 37% | SEMESTER | 8 | Vacation, in Swedish ... or half of an academic year, in English |
| 37% | LEET | 4 | In English and Welsh history, a yearly or half-yearly manorial court of record |
| 34% | DEUTSCHMARK | 11 | English name for the standard monetary unit of Germany replaced by the Euro in 2002 |
| 34% | MERRY | 5 | ___ Brandybuck, close friend of Frodo who is portrayed by Dominic Monaghan in "The Lord of the Rings" films |
| 33% | SEVENTEEN | 9 | "Edge of ___," hit song by Stevie Nicks or the age referenced in "Dancing Queen" by Abba |
| 33% | OCOME | 5 | English start of the popular hymn translated from the Latin by priest Frederick Oakeley in 1841 |
| 33% | CALVIN | 6 | Friend of Hobbes, in comics |
| 33% | SAM | 3 | ___ Gamgee, helper and friend of Frodo who is portrayed by Sean Astin in "The Lord of the Rings" films |
| 33% | LAW | 3 | Betteridge’s ___ of headlines (“Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’ ”) |
| 33% | THE | 3 | One of three articles in English |
| 33% | THESCARLETLETTER | 16 | Provider of an A in English? |
| 33% | IVANHOE | 7 | Friend of Richard I, in fiction |
| 33% | CURD | 4 | Substance used in cheese-making formed from the coagulation of milk by acid or rennet |
| 33% | PERSE | 5 | By or in itself |
| 33% | LINEAR | 6 | Of or in lines |
| 33% | SPATIAL | 7 | Of or in space |
| 32% | SPELLBOUND | 10 | Entranced … or what one can do by reading the starts of 17-, 24-, 34-, 44- and 50-Across in order? |
| 32% | NEMO | 4 | Friend of Bubbles, in an animated film |
| 32% | LANDOCALRISSIAN | 15 | Friend of Han Solo, in "Star Wars" |
| 32% | ARIEL | 5 | Friend of Flounder, in a Disney movie |
| 32% | YES | 3 | One of two answers in Twenty Questions |
| 32% | CRECY | 5 | Village in France; scene of a 1346 victory by the English in the Hundred Years' War |
| 32% | GLENCOE | 7 | Site in Scotland of a 1692 massacre of the MacDonalds by the Campbells and English troops |
| 32% | MATINEE | 7 | Friend takes in English show |
| 32% | WHATISTHAT | 10 | Question of confusion or disgust |
| 32% | ABU | 3 | Friend of Genie in "Aladdin" |
| 32% | WHATAREWE | 9 | Question asked by someone in a relationship . . . and answered, by the artists in parentheses, with the beginnings of 17-, 29-, and 49-Across? |
| 32% | SHINS | 5 | Parts of a soccer player's legs protected by "guards," or (with "The") a band featured in 34-Across/1-Down |