| 100% | ANTIMONY | 8 | Metalloid used with alloys to create batteries |
| 37% | PESTLE | 6 | Used with a mortar to make pastes |
| 36% | TENON | 5 | Used with a mortise to form a joint |
| 36% | EYE | 3 | Used to look with |
| 36% | TEETH | 5 | Used to bite with |
| 35% | SOLDER | 6 | Alloy used to join metals |
| 35% | IQTESTS | 7 | Battery used to measure brightness? |
| 35% | PRE | 3 | Prefix used with "historic" to mean primitive |
| 34% | DREW | 4 | Used a pencil to create a stick figure, say |
| 34% | BIO | 3 | Prefix used with "data" to mean a resume |
| 34% | OMNI | 4 | Prefix used with "potent" to mean all-powerful |
| 34% | BRASS | 5 | Alloy used to make trumpets and tubas |
| 34% | SOLDER | 6 | Alloy used to bind two metals together |
| 34% | PEPPERS | 7 | With 15 Across, illusion that uses a reflection to create the appearance of a phantom |
| 34% | EPEES | 5 | Swords used to fence with |
| 34% | FREERANGE | 9 | Alternative to using a battery |
| 33% | NEE | 3 | Used with the name of a married woman to identify former family |
| 33% | RHO | 3 | Letter used with theta and phi to represent spherical coordinates |
| 33% | PER | 3 | Prefix used with "cent" to mean "for every hundred" |
| 33% | ANTIMONY | 8 | Metalloid, symbol Sb, alloyed with lead/tin |
| 33% | TURMERIC | 8 | Spice used with saffron to dye Buddhist robes |
| 33% | TITANIUM | 8 | Element used to make strong alloys |
| 33% | ETCH | 4 | To engrave with a technique that uses acid |
| 33% | STEEL | 5 | Iron alloy used to make knives |
| 33% | EYE | 3 | Thing you use to see with |
| 33% | EVER | 4 | Word used with "more" to make a Taylor Swift album |
| 33% | COBO | 4 | With 16-Across, where the Pistons used to play |
| 33% | OILDRUM | 7 | Used to make cylinder-style grill with hinged lid |
| 33% | ALOE | 4 | With 17-Down, succulent plant used to make moisturizers |
| 33% | ARRAY | 5 | Used to index objects with the same data type |