| 100% | RAMROD | 6 | Monsanto herbicide used mainly on sorghum in the 90's and now on the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory |
| 26% | NOVAE | 5 | Large Roman legionnaire's fortress, now excavated and open to the public, located on the Danube in N. Bulgaria |
| 26% | FELUCCA | 7 | Small sailboat with triangular sails used in the Mediterranean Sea and on the Nile River |
| 25% | OMG | 3 | Gryffin and Carly Rae Jepsen's 2019 release that hit #1 on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in November |
| 25% | BASEBALL | 8 | UK game once known as "rounders", referenced in the 1740's and now known as this |
| 24% | ASL | 3 | Language in the film "Hear and Now" |
| 24% | ICHAT | 5 | Old instant messaging app used on the Mac OS X and replaced by "Messages" in 2012 |
| 24% | ANA | 3 | Movie released on January 3 this year with Andy García and Dafne Keen in the title role |
| 24% | DISC | 4 | It's black on one side and white on the other, in Othello |
| 24% | MEANIT | 6 | Single by Lauv, released in Nov. 2019 and the 10th track on the album "How I'm Feeling" |
| 23% | ROAD | 4 | Plane flies in the air and car runs on the ___ |
| 23% | ALAR | 4 | Alternate name for the chemical Daminozide, used as a pesticide on fruit until banned by the EPA in 1989 |
| 23% | WALKANDTALK | 11 | Conversational technique often used in "Sports Night," "The West Wing," and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (3 wds.) |
| 23% | TOUR | 4 | What the bands in 16a, 33a, and 51a would go on after releasing an album |
| 23% | MOON | 4 | "...little boy blue and the man on the ___..." ("Cat's in the Cradle" lyrics) |
| 23% | SELENA | 6 | Steve and Martin's co-star on "Only Murders in the Building" |
| 23% | DUVALL | 6 | Robert, actor in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now |
| 23% | PDT | 3 | S.F. is on it in the summer |
| 23% | REFORMED | 8 | On the straight and narrow now |
| 22% | MULLET | 6 | Haircut that's short on the top and sides and long in back |
| 22% | EDSELS | 6 | Pacers and Rangers on the road in the 1950s |
| 22% | CHER | 4 | Singer with top 10 hits in the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's |
| 22% | TONIGHT | 7 | "___ The Heartache's on Me," song from 14a by The Chicks, which released in 1999 |
| 22% | SKYMASTERSON | 12 | Gambler who'll bet on anything in the musical "Guys and Dolls": 2 wds. |
| 22% | THE | 3 | Song with an explanatory subtitle by will.i.am with Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez, released on the iTunes Store in late 2011 |
| 22% | STARR | 5 | Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" |
| 22% | MEATHEAD | 8 | Insulting nickname Archie Bunker used on "All in the Family" |
| 22% | LLANELLI | 8 | Industrial town in Carmarthenshire, S Wales, on the Loughor estuary |
| 22% | FARO | 4 | Port and resort in the Algarve, S Portugal |
| 22% | GORES | 5 | Al and Tipper who used Air Force Two in the 1990s |