| 100% | TAPIRS | 6 | Large animals that look a little pig-like, are related to rhinos and live in the Amazon |
| 39% | ARBOREAL | 8 | Relating to trees, like the animals living in them |
| 37% | DUMMY | 5 | American invention that looks like a mannequin and is central to crash tests |
| 37% | TILDE | 5 | Character that looks like a wave and is widely used in Spanish names |
| 35% | LLAMA | 5 | Animal that looks like a large alpaca |
| 35% | HIPPO | 5 | Large animal that was a ballerina in "Fantasia" |
| 34% | CRETE | 5 | Visit this island that is the largest in Greece and home to the Minoan Palaces (2/3) |
| 34% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that sounds like "a duck if the duck were a songbird," according to Angels in America |
| 34% | COMMA | 5 | English language punctuation that looks like , and is used to separate two parts of a sentence or two items on a list |
| 34% | TAPIR | 5 | Animal that looks like a pig/anteater hybrid (rhymes with "vapor") |
| 34% | STIRUPDRAMA | 11 | Create tension in a group, and a direction that was followed when forming the answer to each starred clue? |
| 34% | HERO | 4 | *Person who saves the day... and a word you may use to describe those being celebrated in this puzzle |
| 34% | SPOT | 4 | Parking ___, place in the car lot where you might be parked, and something that seems impossible to find when you're in a rush |
| 33% | SLICER | 6 | Rival Electric ___, vintage appliance to cut meats and save a trip to the deli that could be spotted in a '70s kitchen |
| 33% | TIGER | 5 | Next stop: India! Visit a zoo to look at this majestic striped feline that is the national animal of India (1/3) |
| 32% | LAMB | 4 | Animal that the month of March is said to "go out like" |
| 32% | BISON | 5 | Largest surviving terrestrial animal in North America, that looks like a buffalo |
| 32% | IPAD | 4 | Apple product that looks like a slate and is touch-sensitive |
| 32% | ASTER | 5 | Daisy-like flower that is a member of the sunflower family and blooms late in fall |
| 32% | HYPHEN | 6 | English language punctuation that looks like - and is used to connect compound words |
| 32% | DASH | 4 | English language punctuation that looks like -- and indicates a sudden break in thought |
| 31% | TEENMOM | 7 | Reality show that documented the lives of four young mothers, and was a spin-off of "16 and Pregnant" and is in its 7th season: 2 wds. |
| 31% | RUSTICATE | 9 | To go and live in the country |
| 31% | STOP | 4 | Full ___, English language punctuation that looks like . and indicates the end of a sentence |
| 31% | UFO | 3 | Sighting in the sky that might turn out to be a weather balloon: Abbr. |
| 31% | CATNIP | 6 | A herb that is minty in flavour and causes euphoria to felines |
| 31% | REMADE | 6 | Like the movie A Star Is Born, in 1954, 1976, and 2018 |
| 31% | CARDIO | 6 | Informal name for a hospital department related to the heart that is featured in "Grey's Anatomy" |
| 31% | EMU | 3 | Flightless bird that's a native of Australia and is the second-largest living bird |
| 31% | LAKE | 4 | ___ Victoria, waterbody in the Tanzanian and Ugandan forests that is a source of the Nile |