| 100% | HYMN | 4 | Music video that Kesha dedicated to the "United We Dream" organization's DACA program in 2018 |
| 31% | MAFIA | 5 | Secret criminal organization originating in Sicily that spread to mainland Italy and the US |
| 29% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school that's the most applied to in the US: Abbr. |
| 28% | GREENPEACE | 10 | Organization that published the "Guide to Greener Electronics" in 2017 |
| 27% | OAHU | 4 | Hawaiian island that's home to the only royal palace in the US |
| 26% | AVA | 3 | Name that fills in the blanks to make another name: S_ _ _NNAH |
| 26% | FAKELOVE | 8 | 2018 BTS hit that was their first top 10 single in the US: 2 wds. |
| 26% | THELASTOF | 9 | "___ Us," one of the best-selling PlayStation video games released in 2013 that is set in a post-apocalyptic U.S.: 3 wds. |
| 26% | VEVO | 4 | Video music hosting group, formed by two of the "big three" record companies in the US |
| 26% | SOH | 3 | The note that was "a needle pulling thread" according to Maria in "The Sound of Music" |
| 26% | GREENBOOK | 9 | 2018 drama starring Mahershala Ali that's one of six PG-13 films to win a Best Picture Oscar in the 21st century (2 wds.) |
| 26% | MAFIA | 5 | Secret criminal organisation originating in Sicily that spread to mainland Italy and the US |
| 26% | ALEXANDRIA | 10 | ___ Ocasio-Cortez who made history in 2018 by becoming the youngest woman to serve in Congress in United States |
| 25% | FLY | 3 | "Learning to ___," Pink Floyd song that won Best Concept Video at the MTV Video Music Awards |
| 25% | HELLO | 5 | Adele song with the lyric "I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be" |
| 25% | TALLAHATCHIE | 12 | River rising in Mississippi, US, that converges with the Yalobusha at Greenwood to form the Yazoo |
| 25% | USA | 3 | Nation that's home to the United Nations: Abbr. |
| 25% | ONES | 4 | "Here's to the ___ that we got..." ("Memories" lyrics) |
| 25% | CLOUD | 5 | Type of storage that allows us to access our files and data from anywhere in the world |
| 25% | PALMSPRINGS | 11 | California city that, in 2018, became the first U.S. city to have an all-L.G.B.T. city council |
| 25% | AAH | 3 | US Army program begun in 1972 to find a replacement after the cancellation of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne (abbr.) |
| 25% | BURN | 4 | "We'll ___ that bridge when we get to it," example of 50a that predicts a mess in the future |
| 24% | SLEDGEHAMMER | 12 | Song that accounted for 9 of the 10 MTV Video Music Awards won by 17-Across in 1987 |
| 24% | RODSTEWART | 10 | Singer who performed his song "Infatuation" to open the first MTV Video Music Awards, in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 24% | BONNET | 6 | Car part that's called the hood in the US |
| 24% | WOODSTOCK | 9 | Snoopy's pal; famous US music festival in the 60s |
| 24% | ISP | 3 | Org. that provides on-line access and in the US, has to allow law agencies to monitor their transmissions |
| 24% | ALABAMA | 7 | Montgomery's state that was the first US state to recognize Christmas as a holiday in 1836 |
| 24% | MTV | 3 | Music channel launched in 1981 that popularized the concept of "video jockey": Abbr. |
| 24% | PIECEOFME | 9 | Song by 32-Across that won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2008, including Video of the Year (3 wds.) |