| 100% | TAPER | 5 | Get progressively narrower and slender (rhymes with "caper") |
| 72% | TAPER | 5 | Get progressively narrower and slender |
| 68% | TAPER | 5 | Get progressively narrower and more slender |
| 44% | TAPER | 5 | Get progressively narrower |
| 37% | CLASPED | 7 | Held close, rhymes with and means "grasped" |
| 37% | TAPENADES | 9 | Spreads made with capers, olives and anchovies |
| 37% | WINE | 4 | Rhymes and goes with "dine" |
| 36% | FEAST | 5 | "Beauty and the ___," swap "Beast" with a rhyming word to get a fantasy film where Belle must host a lavish banquet |
| 36% | STEEP | 5 | It rhymes with "cheap" and means the opposite |
| 36% | ETA | 3 | Greek letter that rhymes with beta and zeta |
| 36% | RENO | 4 | Nevada city that rhymes with "keno" and "casino" |
| 36% | OAR | 3 | Boating implement that rhymes with "four" and "more" |
| 36% | THETA | 5 | Greek letter that rhymes with beta and zeta |
| 36% | TUB | 3 | It's often rhymed with "rub" and "dub" |
| 35% | THETA | 5 | Letter that rhymes with, and follows, zeta and eta |
| 35% | ETA | 3 | Greek letter that rhymes with beta, zeta, and theta |
| 35% | ETA | 3 | Letter that rhymes with 34-Across and 21-Down |
| 35% | JEER | 4 | Something that rhymes with, and might accompany, a sneer |
| 35% | RAPBATTLE | 9 | Competition with rhyme and rhythm |
| 35% | IRE | 3 | Feeling that rhymes with "fire" and makes one go red |
| 35% | ETA | 3 | Letter that rhymes with the ones before and after it |
| 35% | INKY | 4 | Pac-Man ghost whose name rhymes with Blinky and Pinky |
| 35% | ETA | 3 | Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it |
| 35% | RASTAPASTA | 10 | Rhyming dish with jerk chicken and bell peppers |
| 34% | GREW | 4 | Got bigger, rhymes with drew |
| 34% | APRICOT | 7 | Word rhymed with "yacht" and "gavotte" in "You're So Vain" |
| 34% | MINI | 4 | With 10-Across, place to get milk and bread |
| 34% | PTAS | 4 | Gps. moms and dads get involved with |
| 34% | SHORTY | 6 | Mobster movie with Travolta and Russo, Get __ |
| 34% | ICECREAMSOCIAL | 14 | *"Cool" get-together with cones and scoops |