| 100% | LURE | 4 | Leather effigy of a prey object that falconers use to train their birds |
| 34% | ROC | 3 | A mythical bird of prey that hunted Elephants, which Sinbad used as a form of transport |
| 31% | NET | 3 | Back of a goal used to catch balls that score |
| 31% | GYRFALCON | 9 | Bird of prey that morphs to match surroundings |
| 31% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird of prey that looks like a hawk |
| 31% | OWLET | 5 | Smaller version of a bird that is thought to be wise |
| 30% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird of prey similar to a falcon and hawk |
| 30% | SKYLARKS | 8 | Birds that gave their name to a former Buick model |
| 30% | EAGLENEBULA | 11 | Star cluster that resembles a bird of prey |
| 30% | FALCONRY | 8 | Hunting wild animals using a bird of prey |
| 30% | BELL | 4 | Hollow, cup-shaped object that may be used to decorate a Christmas tree |
| 30% | GLOW | 4 | ___ stick, festival object that uses a chemiluminescent reaction to shine in the dark |
| 30% | FALCONRY | 8 | Hunting with a trained falcon or bird of prey |
| 30% | CLIPONTIES | 10 | Articles of neckwear that are a snap to use? |
| 29% | SCOOP | 5 | Tool that's used to get ice cream out of a tub |
| 29% | DISCIPLINE | 10 | Train someone to obey ... or a word that means "area of academic focus" |
| 28% | MIRROR | 6 | Glass object that is often used to figure out how one is looking at a particular moment |
| 28% | CHICKEN | 7 | Type of bird used to refer to a coward |
| 28% | MATTE | 5 | Mask used to blank out part of an image in a film so that another can be superimposed |
| 28% | LEEK | 4 | Vegetable that is used to make soup (whose edible part is a bundle of leaf sheaths) |
| 28% | BALD | 4 | ___ eagle, bird of prey that can fly 225 miles in a day during migration |
| 28% | DODO | 4 | Extinct bird that used to roam the island of Mauritius |
| 28% | AOL | 3 | Internet pioneer that used to mail a lot of CDs |
| 28% | SEMICOLON | 9 | Punctuation mark used to indicate a pause intermediate in length between that of a comma and a full stop |
| 28% | LONGE | 5 | Rein used to train a horse |
| 27% | CHAOS | 5 | Controlled ___, oxymoron used to describe a situation that seems to be out of control but has some factors in control |
| 27% | VENN | 4 | John —, British mathematician who conceived a diagram that used circles to represent sets and their relationships |
| 27% | THEMONOLITH | 11 | Black artifact that inspires one of the 21 Across to use a bone as a weapon |
| 27% | MTV | 3 | Channel that used to show a clip of the 1969 moon landing every hour |
| 27% | HAND | 4 | Body part with fingers ... and something one uses to brush off imaginary dust from their shoulder in a gesture of confidence |