| 100% | CLIFFS | 6 | Landforms that steeply drop down to body of water |
| 46% | HARDSEA | 7 | Body of water that's difficult to cross? (start of 18-Across) |
| 46% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water that was parted by Moses, according to Exodus: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ROSSSEA | 7 | Body of water that's home to the world's largest marine reserve |
| 43% | OKEECHOBEE | 10 | Lake —, freshwater body of water in Florida that drains to the Atlantic Ocean via the Everglades |
| 41% | SOUND | 5 | Body of water that, appropriately, suggests homophones of 1-Across and 5-Down |
| 40% | ROSSSEA | 7 | Body of water next to Antarctica |
| 40% | LAGOON | 6 | Body of water similar to a bay |
| 40% | BAYS | 4 | Bodies of water that cut into shorelines |
| 39% | BANDASEA | 8 | Body of water that surrounds the Maluku Islands |
| 39% | PUGETSOUND | 10 | Body of water that 68-Across is on |
| 39% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water that separates Africa and Asia |
| 39% | IRISHSEA | 8 | Body of water that separates Britain and Ireland |
| 39% | IRISHSEA | 8 | Body of water that separates England and Ireland |
| 39% | SEA | 3 | Body of water that's a homophone of "C" |
| 39% | SEA | 3 | Body of water that's smaller than an ocean |
| 39% | BLACKSEA | 8 | Body of water that the Danube river empties into |
| 39% | SEA | 3 | Body of water that can be red or dead |
| 39% | POND | 4 | Body of water that's smaller than a lake |
| 39% | WHITESEA | 8 | Body of water connected by canal to the Baltic |
| 39% | ARAL | 4 | ___ Sea (body of water that used to be roughly the size of West Virginia) |
| 38% | STRAIT | 6 | Body of water that sounds like an antonym for "crooked" |
| 38% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water that separates Africa from Asia: 2 wds. |
| 38% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water that was parted by Moses : 2 wds. |
| 38% | LAKE | 4 | Body of water that's smaller than a 38-Across |
| 38% | LAKE | 4 | Body of water that a summer cottage might be near |
| 38% | LAGOONS | 7 | Shallow bodies of water next to coral reefs |
| 38% | SEA | 3 | Body of water that sounds like a letter of the alphabet |
| 38% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water that Moses parts in the Bible: 2 wds. |
| 38% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water that's parted in the Bible: 2 wds. |