| 100% | WHAMMYBAR | 9 | Hendrix famously used one in his Woodstock rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 42% | STANZA | 6 | One of four in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 37% | PEN | 3 | James Bond uses a modified one to melt the iron bars of his cell in Octopussy |
| 37% | OER | 3 | Start of the last line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 35% | OER | 3 | Contraction before “the land of the free,” in “The Star-Spangled Banner” |
| 35% | PERILOUS | 8 | Type of fight cited in the Star-Spangled Banner |
| 35% | STANZA | 6 | One of four for "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 35% | GUITARSOLO | 10 | Hendrix's "Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, for one |
| 34% | CAMEO | 5 | Hitchcock famously had one in most of his films |
| 34% | TOPHAT | 6 | One of the original Monopoly tokens still in use |
| 34% | ELSE | 4 | One of the most commonly used conditional statements in programming |
| 34% | URDU | 4 | One of the two official languages used in Quetta, Balochistan |
| 34% | DENEB | 5 | One of three stars in the Summer Triangle |
| 33% | REASON | 6 | One of 13 in the popular Netflix title starring Katherine Langford |
| 33% | FLAG | 4 | Union Jack or the Star-Spangled Banner, for one |
| 33% | OER | 3 | Contraction sung twice in the first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 32% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 32% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 32% | CAMEO | 5 | Appearance like the ones Alfred Hitchcock made in 40 of his films |
| 32% | ETERNAL | 7 | "___ Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," 2004 film starring Jim Carrey which uses reverse chronology in its narrative |
| 32% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 31% | OER | 3 | Elided word in "The Star Spangled Banner" |
| 31% | KATAKANA | 8 | One of the Japanese collections of syllabic symbols most often used in transcribing foreign words into Japanese |
| 31% | AET | 3 | One of the abbreviations used for a paraprofessional educator, a foreign national working in a Japanese classroom |
| 31% | SEE | 3 | Fifth word in the "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 31% | HOBBYHORSE | 10 | One of the creations Tchaikovsky played with in the third piece of his Opus 39, "Album pour enfants" |
| 30% | OSAY | 4 | Start of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 30% | COMPUTERNERD | 12 | One who might use one of the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 30% | WOOFER | 6 | Loudspeaker used in hi-fi systems for the reproduction of low audio frequencies |
| 30% | CHO | 3 | One of the most successful comedians, Margaret, who was the star in "All-American Girl" and "Drop Dead Diva" |