| 100% | UBOLT | 5 | Item connecting axle to leaf spring, or the world's fastest person, in brief |
| 32% | CURLINGSTONES | 13 | Items guided by brooms in the Winter Olympics ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 31% | WILMA | 5 | Considered the world's fastest woman in the 60s, she became the first American woman to win three golds in a single Olympic Games |
| 31% | GMO | 3 | Technology that's used to produce almost all the world's cotton, in brief |
| 30% | BUGSOUT | 7 | Leaves in a hurry, or a hint to the cluing of the starred answers |
| 30% | CAIRO | 5 | Most populous city in the Arab world, home to 19+ million people |
| 30% | USAIN | 5 | Track star Bolt, known as the world's fastest person |
| 29% | SOLO | 4 | How Joshua Slocum sailed around the world starting in 1895, becoming the first person to do so |
| 29% | ISLAM | 5 | The world's fastest-growing religion, with nearly 350 million new observers in the past decade |
| 29% | USSR | 4 | One-sixth of the world's ground surface until 1991, in brief |
| 29% | KEY | 3 | Port ___, item that is used to transport people to locations in the "Harry Potter" series |
| 28% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 28% | PASSERS | 7 | People in the fast lane |
| 28% | IMAGINE | 7 | To see or create something in a person's mind |
| 28% | IRENA | 5 | ___ Szewinska, only sprinter (male or female) to hold world records in the 100m, 200m and 400m events |
| 28% | BRUTUS | 6 | To Shakespeare he was "high in all the people's hearts" |
| 27% | MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE | 17 | Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as |
| 27% | BBS | 3 | Item I used often to chat with others in the '90s with my super-fast 14.4 kbit/s modem (abbr.) |
| 27% | BLOWININTHEWIND | 15 | Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the object found by connecting the four circled letters in a diamond |
| 27% | MANNYPACQUIAO | 13 | Filipino boxer who recently became the first person to hold a world title in four different decades: 2 wds. |
| 27% | UNIFORM | 7 | People in the military have to wear this |
| 27% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | Only person in the arts ever to be named Time's Person of the Year |
| 27% | MOVING | 6 | With 58-Down, vehicle for people on the go? ... or a hint to five strategically placed answers in this puzzle |
| 27% | OFFICER | 7 | Person in command in the military or other service |
| 27% | STABLEBOY | 9 | Person in a barn who tends to the animals |
| 27% | FALCON | 6 | Peregrine bird that's fastest in the world |
| 27% | CIA | 3 | Publisher of the World Factbook, in brief |
| 27% | GATES | 5 | Richest person in the world before Bezos |
| 26% | EASTEREGG | 9 | Item sought in the spring |
| 26% | USAINBOLT | 9 | The World's Fastest Man |