| 100% | WOOFER | 6 | Loudspeaker used in hi-fi systems for the reproduction of low audio frequencies |
| 40% | LARUE | 5 | Lash known for his use of the bullwhip in old Westerns |
| 35% | NICAM | 5 | Digital system used in British television for the reception of stereo sound signals |
| 35% | HRGIGER | 7 | Swiss artist known for his design of the creature in 1979 sci-fi film Alien |
| 34% | PEACH | 5 | Color named for the interior flesh of the fruit used in cobbler |
| 34% | SOLOMON | 7 | In the Bible, King of Israel famous for his wisdom |
| 34% | NUCLEAR | 7 | The 1st use of __ power for electricity was in 1951 |
| 34% | ROTATION | 8 | System used for the plantation in Middle Ages |
| 34% | NEEDLEDROP | 10 | Turntable-inspired term for the use of a familiar song in a film |
| 33% | VAS | 3 | Units used for expressing electrical power in the metric system (abbr.) |
| 32% | ATOMSMASHER | 11 | Layman's term for the gizmo they used to confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson in 2012 |
| 32% | CLAY | 4 | The King of ___ (nickname for Rafael Nadal, who won his thirteenth French Open in October, 2020) |
| 31% | SILKEN | 6 | Like the “fringe of his faint eyes,” in Shelley’s elegy for Keats |
| 31% | SPATULA | 7 | Used for scraping the side of the bowl in baking |
| 31% | LTR | 3 | Unit of volume in the metric system, for short |
| 31% | NEEL | 4 | Louis —, joint recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetism |
| 31% | MRMOJORISIN | 11 | Phrase used in the song "L.A. Woman," by Jim Morrison which is an anagram of his name: 3 wds. |
| 31% | ASL | 3 | "Talking" system for the deaf, in brief |
| 31% | FJORD | 5 | & 22A Equine mammal from the mountainous regions of Norway used for heavy work or in sport |
| 30% | OAKUM | 5 | Tarrerd fibre used in shipbuilding for the sealing of gaps |
| 30% | SCIATIC | 7 | — nerve, that part of the nervous system beginning in the lower back and extending down the thigh |
| 30% | AET | 3 | One of the abbreviations used for a paraprofessional educator, a foreign national working in a Japanese classroom |
| 30% | BLOOM | 5 | Orlando ___, "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor who skydived in a wingsuit for his show "To the Edge" |
| 30% | VIDEO | 5 | What the villain in "Untraceable" shows online for each of his victims |
| 30% | SAMITE | 6 | Heavy fabric of silk used in the Middle Ages for clothing |
| 30% | DOPPLER | 7 | Christian —, 19th-century mathematician and physicist noted for his work on the frequency of light and sound waves |
| 30% | LARD | 4 | Fat from the abdomen of a pig rendered and clarified for use in cooking |
| 30% | INCH | 4 | Small unit of length not used in the metric system |
| 30% | BECHDELTEST | 11 | Assessment used for measuring the representation of women in film |