| 100% | OILER | 5 | Gretzky, for most of the 1980s |
| 80% | IRAN | 4 | Iraq's foe for much of the 1980s |
| 79% | OILER | 5 | Gretzky, for most of the nineteen-eighties |
| 76% | LENDL | 5 | Ivan who was a top-ranked tennis player for much of the 1980s |
| 68% | REAGANERA | 9 | Most of the 1980s |
| 64% | INMATE | 6 | Capone, for much of the '30s |
| 64% | SEA | 3 | Setting for much of the "Odyssey" |
| 64% | INDIA | 5 | Setting for much of the movie "Lion" |
| 64% | MASK | 4 | Face covering for many of the Avengers |
| 63% | CITYSTREETS | 11 | Locale for most of the New York Marathon |
| 63% | MEDICI | 6 | Family ruling Florence for most of the Renaissance |
| 63% | ASTRO | 5 | Nolan Ryan, for most of the 80's |
| 63% | SLEEP | 5 | What newborns do for most of the day |
| 63% | YELTSIN | 7 | Russian leader for most of the 1990s, Boris |
| 63% | LENDL | 5 | #1 tennis player for much of the '80s |
| 63% | FRANCE | 6 | Papal residence country for much of the 1300s |
| 63% | ALONE | 5 | Like Kevin McCallister for much of the movie |
| 62% | SSR | 3 | Georgia, for most of the 20th century, in brief |
| 62% | ALASKANINTERIOR | 15 | Setting for much of the 33-Across/16-Down |
| 62% | SITS | 4 | What a judge does for much of the day |
| 62% | ARABIANSEA | 10 | Locale for much of the world's oil shipping |
| 62% | DIMITRI | 7 | New York Philharmonic conductor for most of the fifties, ____ Mitropoulos |
| 61% | SEWER | 5 | Setting for much of the 2006 animated film "Flushed Away" |
| 61% | DREAMT | 6 | What Dorothy did, for most of the "Wizard of Oz" movie |
| 61% | AAA | 3 | Minor league baseball classification for most of the teams on "Brockmire" |
| 61% | USSR | 4 | Country that included Russia for much of the 20th century: Abbr. |
| 61% | WATER | 5 | Most of the album cover for SZA's "SOS" |
| 60% | DRS | 3 | Most of the main "Grey's Anatomy" characters, for short |
| 60% | SWEDEN | 6 | Setting for much of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” |
| 59% | PAST | 4 | Setting for much of "Back to the Future" |