| 100% | COL | 3 | Gap through the mountains, often occupied by a road or railroad |
| 39% | BEEP | 4 | Sound made by a car horn or the Road Runner |
| 32% | NET | 3 | What's pulled through the water by a trawler |
| 31% | LOOPHOLE | 8 | A gap or ambiguity in the law, for example |
| 31% | PLAID | 5 | A checked or tartan cloth often worn by Scots |
| 31% | SCIENTIST | 9 | Often works in a lab or in the field |
| 31% | WINDING | 7 | Description for the road around a mountain |
| 30% | IBUPROFEN | 9 | A pain-reliever known by the name Advil or Motrin |
| 30% | STEEPLY | 7 | How a mountain road may rise or fall |
| 30% | PARALLELPARKS | 13 | Completes a road test maneuver ... or the answers to starred clues, as arranged |
| 30% | EGRET | 5 | A white heron, often found in the wetlands or near marshes |
| 30% | ROADWAY | 7 | Part of a bridge or railroad used by vehicles |
| 30% | LANDSLIDE | 9 | Rockfall or mudslip from the side of a mountain |
| 29% | ONME | 4 | "You Dropped a Bomb ___" (1982 hit by the Gap Band) |
| 29% | IDEA | 4 | It's often symbolized by a lightbulb, in the comics |
| 29% | START | 5 | Word by the first square in a board game, often |
| 29% | AEGIS | 5 | Protection, or the name of a shield carried by Zeus |
| 29% | TRAINLOAD | 9 | A huge quantity, the full freight or passenger capacity of a railroad vehicle |
| 29% | SPARE | 5 | Bowling term ... or the name of a memoir by Prince Harry |
| 28% | PLATTE | 6 | River paralleled by I-80 through a long stretch of the Plains |
| 28% | INNER | 5 | Private ... or a hint to the words spelled by the circled letters |
| 28% | PAVE | 4 | Coat the road or an area with a hard substance |
| 28% | BLUE | 4 | ___ Ridge Parkway, scenic route through the Great Smoky Mountains that you can take for your road trip |
| 28% | STEEPENED | 9 | Raised the incline of, as a mountain road |
| 28% | GAP | 3 | Pass through the mountains |
| 28% | DITCHES | 7 | Trenches by a road |
| 28% | SANTAANA | 8 | City in Orange County, or the often congested freeway that runs through it |
| 28% | BREAKABLES | 10 | Fragile articles ... or a hint to the things named by the circled letters |
| 28% | PARTYDOWN | 9 | Really revel ... or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters |
| 28% | DICE | 4 | *Board game cubes ... or with "Roll of the," a song by Bruce Springsteen |