| 100% | LASERS | 6 | Light beams that shoot out of cats’ mouths, in a series of “S.N.L.” digital shorts |
| 34% | ASH | 3 | Gray stuff that's shot out of a volcano |
| 33% | LIP | 3 | Mouth part that's stuck out in a pout |
| 33% | GREATMEN | 8 | Highly influential leaders, in a theory of history that's now out of favor |
| 31% | EXT | 3 | Kind of shot that's the opposite of a 47-Across in a screenplay |
| 31% | INT | 3 | Kind of shot that's the opposite of a 38-Down in a screenplay |
| 31% | ANUBIS | 6 | "House of ___," Nickelodeon series starring Nathalia Ramos that's set in a boarding school |
| 31% | CRADLE | 6 | Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme “Rock-a-Bye Baby” |
| 30% | WRIST | 5 | ___ shot, quick accurate shot in ice hockey that's a staple of an offensive player's arsenal |
| 30% | LASERED | 7 | Shot with a beam of light |
| 30% | TEE | 3 | Item that might be knocked out of the ground with a golf shot |
| 30% | BABAR | 5 | "King of the elephants" in a series of children's books |
| 30% | CASHFLOW | 8 | Money that moves in and out of a business |
| 30% | POCKETDOORS | 11 | *Barriers that slide in and out of a wall |
| 30% | OLIVIA | 6 | Pig featured in a series of children's books |
| 30% | ELMER | 5 | Patchwork elephant in a series of children's books |
| 29% | NATE | 4 | ___ the Great (detective in a series of children's books) |
| 29% | LYLE | 4 | Crocodile in a series of Bernard Waber children's books |
| 29% | FOLLICLE | 8 | Small cavity in the skin that a hair grows out of |
| 29% | ENOLA | 5 | Sherlock Holmes's younger sister in a series of YA novels |
| 29% | MENORAH | 7 | There's a 30 foot one that's lit every year in the northeast quadrant of The Ellipse in DC |
| 29% | EPISODIC | 8 | In a series of installments |
| 29% | ARI | 3 | N.F.L. team with a logo of a bird's head, for short |
| 28% | ARNIE | 5 | Name of the titular anthropomorphic doughnut in a series of kid-lit books |
| 28% | ELI | 3 | Name that's a shorter version of Felix (in a sense) |
| 28% | ETON | 4 | School that's part of Princeton, in a sense |
| 28% | MATTE | 5 | Mask used to blank out part of an image in a film so that another can be superimposed |
| 28% | HOLE | 4 | ___ in one, golf shot that you would aim for during a day of playing golf |
| 28% | LASER | 5 | Intense beam of light that can be a surgical tool |
| 28% | BABAR | 5 | King of the elephants in a children's book series |