| 100% | SWAHILI | 7 | Language that's spoken in Kenya and Uganda |
| 48% | HINDI | 5 | Language that's third in number of worldwide speakers, after English and Mandarin |
| 48% | SWAHILI | 7 | Language spoken in Kenya |
| 46% | HINDI | 5 | Language that is commonly spoken in India |
| 46% | ROMANCE | 7 | Family that includes the languages spoken in 13- and 15-Across |
| 45% | ITALIAN | 7 | Language spoken in Rome and Florence |
| 45% | SPANISH | 7 | Language spoken in Argentina and Chile |
| 45% | ITAL | 4 | Language spoken in Rome and Milan (Abbr.) |
| 43% | SWAHILI | 7 | Principal language spoken in Kenya besides English |
| 43% | PUNJABI | 7 | Language spoken in both India and Pakistan |
| 43% | ARABIC | 6 | Language spoken in Egypt, Kuwait and Syria |
| 43% | MALAY | 5 | Language spoken in Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei |
| 42% | AREA | 4 | Wernicke's ___ is part of the brain involved in the comprehension of written and spoken language |
| 41% | ENGLISH | 7 | Main language spoken in Australia and New Zealand |
| 41% | ROBOT | 5 | "Person" that speaks in beeps and boops |
| 40% | TONGUE | 6 | Organ in the mouth that helps you eat and speak |
| 39% | LEET | 4 | Internet language that’s the source of “pwned” and “n00b” |
| 39% | IGBO | 4 | Indigenous language that’s a lingua franca in southeastern Nigeria |
| 39% | THAI | 4 | Language spoken in Bangkok's country |
| 38% | DASH | 4 | English language punctuation that looks like -- and indicates a sudden break in thought |
| 38% | SWAHILI | 7 | Kenya's two official languages: English and __ |
| 38% | THAMES | 6 | River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 37% | SWAHILI | 7 | Official language of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania |
| 37% | ENG | 3 | Language spoken in TV's "Hunters," for short |
| 37% | OTOMI | 5 | Language spoken in Mexico's central altiplano region |
| 37% | YES | 3 | "That's correct" ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 28-, 45- and 59-Across, in different languages |
| 37% | RULER | 5 | Item that's marked off and used in school |
| 37% | CHINMUSIC | 9 | Pitch that's high and inside, in baseball parlance |
| 37% | PEA | 3 | Vegetable that's sometimes roasted and coated in wasabi |
| 37% | EDEN | 4 | Garden that's important in Christianity and Judaism |