| 100% | GOTATIP | 7 | Heard from an informant, maybe |
| 54% | IWIN | 4 | Words not heard from an 18-Across |
| 53% | FELTITCHY | 9 | Suffered from an allergy, maybe |
| 53% | UBER | 4 | Ride from an airport, maybe |
| 53% | MEFIRST | 7 | Words from an elbower, maybe |
| 51% | ICOULDBEMISTAKEN | 16 | Last thing you want to hear from an ICBM expert? |
| 51% | ALERT | 5 | Beep from an Apple watch, maybe |
| 51% | COIN | 4 | Souvenir from an international vacation, maybe |
| 51% | OOH | 3 | Reaction from an amazed crowd, maybe |
| 51% | DRAT | 4 | Cry from an upset kid, maybe |
| 51% | BAA | 3 | Cry from an upset kid, maybe |
| 50% | AWE | 3 | Evoke an "ooh" from, maybe |
| 47% | YET | 3 | "Have you met him ___?" (question from an eager friend, maybe) |
| 47% | SAFE | 4 | Shout from an umpire that a baserunner hopes to hear |
| 47% | SHH | 3 | Sound from an irritated rider in an Amtrak quiet car, maybe |
| 47% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | *Mark the transition from an old year to the new, maybe |
| 46% | OPERABOX | 8 | Area from which to hear an aria |
| 45% | DAYO | 4 | Word from an old Harry Belafonte song heard in some stadium chants (Hyph.) |
| 43% | TOOLONGDIDNTREAD | 16 | Response from someone who merely glanced at an online post, maybe |
| 40% | LENA | 4 | Horne from Brooklyn |
| 39% | RETRO | 5 | From an earlier era |
| 39% | INCAN | 5 | From an ancient empire |
| 39% | OLD | 3 | From an earlier time |
| 39% | FORMER | 6 | From an earlier time |
| 39% | OFOLD | 5 | From an earlier time |
| 39% | BALINESE | 8 | From an indonesian island |
| 38% | SELL | 4 | Word in an urgent text from your broker, maybe |
| 38% | STET | 4 | Confident reply from a writer to an editor, maybe |
| 38% | OLD | 3 | From an earlier century, perhaps |
| 38% | FINKED | 6 | Was an informant |