| 100% | RICE | 4 | Houston school that's been removed from 78 Across |
| 71% | EMORY | 5 | Atlanta school that's been removed from 67 Across |
| 71% | SMITH | 5 | Northampton school that's been removed from 22 Across |
| 56% | MIT | 3 | Cambridge sch. that's been removed from 43 Across |
| 45% | LOSTMEDIA | 9 | Show that's been removed from streaming without a physical release, e.g. |
| 45% | MSU | 3 | East Lansing sch. that's been removed from 14 Down |
| 45% | UNC | 3 | Chapel Hill sch. that's been removed from 3 Down |
| 43% | CARBONOFFSETS | 13 | They fund projects that remove a gas from the atmosphere, which is a hint to what's happening in four Across answers |
| 39% | ERASABLE | 8 | Like ink that can be removed from the page |
| 36% | PRIZE | 5 | Item that was removed from boxes of Cracker Jack in 2016 |
| 35% | IMHOT | 5 | Words that might be heard from a sweater removing a sweater |
| 34% | REDS | 4 | M&M's that were removed from 1976 to 1987 out of a health concern for a coloring dye |
| 34% | SDSU | 4 | Calif. school that's about 20 miles from the Mexican border |
| 33% | TINS | 4 | Spam is removed from them |
| 33% | KIDNEY | 6 | "I'm a bean-shaped organ that removes waste from your body. Who am I?" |
| 32% | ASIA | 4 | Continent that's across the Pacific from North America |
| 32% | DONE | 4 | Ready to be removed from the oven |
| 32% | ALCOA | 5 | It was removed from the Dow in 2013 |
| 32% | JAPAN | 5 | Country that baseball's Ichiro Suzuki is from |
| 32% | PRINCEON | 8 | Notification that the "Purple Rain" rocker is performing right now? (going from a school in New Jersey ...) |
| 32% | BEVERLYHILLS | 12 | Single from the album "Make Believe" that was 42-Across's first Top 10 hit (2 wds.) |
| 32% | EXPEL | 5 | Permanently remove from school |
| 31% | BACKTOTHEDRAWINGBOARD | 21 | "___? That's when an artist is facing away from a drafting table" |
| 31% | DELE | 4 | Marking indicating something to be removed from the text |
| 31% | WHOLE | 5 | With 36-Down, what plasma may be removed from |
| 31% | PENN | 4 | School that's the furthest south of the 7-Across |
| 31% | ANTLERS | 7 | Growths from an elk's head that are shed annually |
| 31% | EGG | 3 | ___ drop contest, modern science experiment that had fun structures built for protection and is an unexpected memory from school |
| 31% | UNH | 3 | School that moved from Hanover to Durham: Abbr. |