| 100% | CARNE | 5 | Meat, as in 66-Down |
| 57% | AGED | 4 | Left to improve, as in some 80 Down |
| 56% | LEAN | 4 | Low in fat, as meat |
| 55% | BOG | 3 | ___ down (get stuck, as if in mud) |
| 55% | TORRENTIAL | 10 | Coming down in sheets, as rain |
| 54% | LEAN | 4 | Low in fat content, as ground meat |
| 54% | TAMP | 4 | Push down, as tobacco in a pipe |
| 53% | SITAT | 5 | Plunk down in front of, as a counter |
| 52% | AHORA | 5 | 66-Down, in Spain |
| 52% | KOLN | 4 | 66-Down, in German |
| 52% | CLOVES | 6 | Dry flower buds used as a spice in meat |
| 52% | RTE | 3 | Road such as 66 in a famous song: Abbr. |
| 51% | HAM | 3 | Meat in a 5-Down |
| 51% | BOLOGNA | 7 | City in Italy with same spelling as a deli meat |
| 51% | SANDWICH | 8 | Food with bread as the base and meat in between |
| 51% | PILAF | 5 | Rice with additions such as meat or nuts mixed in |
| 51% | TEARGASSED | 10 | Put down, in a way, as a group of rioters |
| 51% | DECREASE | 8 | Go down in number, as a city's population might |
| 50% | NOTED | 5 | Wrote down, as in a college class |
| 50% | KNEEL | 5 | Bend down, as in a church pew |
| 50% | KATYPERRY | 9 | Singer who stepped down as an "American Idol" judge in 2024 |
| 49% | ATPAR | 5 | E, as in some 37-Down telecasts |
| 49% | EMU | 3 | It was billed as “the next red meat” in the nineteen-nineties |
| 49% | QUORN | 5 | Vegetable protein developed from fungus used in cooking as a meat substitute |
| 49% | PLUMB | 5 | With 111 Down, crazy as a loon, in the Crazy A Saloon |
| 48% | SAGE | 4 | A popular meat seasoning herb that is in the same family as mint |
| 48% | HEADTOTOE | 9 | Complete … as suggested by four symmetrical pairs of Down answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | PER | 3 | As in |
| 46% | LALA | 4 | As in C |
| 46% | ARSENIC | 7 | As in chemistry? |