| 100% | ARUT | 4 | In ___ (bored with things) |
| 85% | JADED | 5 | Bored with the whole thing |
| 80% | AWLS | 4 | Boring things in shops |
| 78% | CLUTTERED | 9 | Filled with things in an untidy way |
| 78% | OLEOS | 5 | Things with oils in them |
| 78% | ESTATES | 7 | Things dealt with in passing? |
| 77% | SITES | 5 | Things with periods in their names |
| 75% | BBQS | 4 | Things with spits and pits, in brief |
| 75% | ONION | 5 | Thing with layers, in a "Shrek" analogy |
| 75% | ADDED | 5 | Put in with other things |
| 74% | DIAMONDS | 8 | Things associated with eight answers in this puzzle |
| 74% | MAJOR | 5 | With 6-Across, happy-sounding thing in music |
| 74% | BUSHES | 6 | Things beaten in searches, with "the" |
| 73% | BADCROWD | 8 | Dangerous thing to fall in with |
| 73% | PURPOSEBUILT | 12 | Made with one thing in mind |
| 73% | ATRAIN | 6 | With 26-Down, repeated occurrences of things in turn |
| 73% | HULA | 4 | With 1-Down, hip things in a 1950s fad? |
| 72% | THE | 3 | With 64-Across, bad thing to be caught in |
| 72% | ART | 3 | With 4-Down, sketchy thing to take in school? |
| 71% | BLOBS | 5 | Shapeless things in lava lamps (rhymes with "snobs") |
| 70% | EIGHT | 5 | With 50-Down, things centered in Across answers in this puzzle |
| 70% | JOYCE | 5 | With 39-Across, character played by 18-Across in "Stranger Things" |
| 69% | AUGERS | 6 | Tools with corkscrew bit for boring holes in soil |
| 69% | HOPE | 4 | "The thing with feathers" in an Emily Dickinson poem |
| 69% | RAHEEM | 6 | Character with a boombox in "Do the Right Thing" |
| 67% | LEGO | 4 | Popular toy brand in which you build various things with blocks |
| 66% | OCARINA | 7 | Wind instrument with a solo in the Troggs’s “Wild Thing” |
| 65% | HOPE | 4 | "The thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson |
| 65% | DRE | 3 | Dr. who came up with "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" in 1992 |
| 65% | SOUL | 4 | "'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the ___": Emily Dickinson |