| 100% | TRITONE | 7 | Musical interval consisting of three whole tones whose use was prohibited in medieval times |
| 30% | SEMITONES | 9 | Musical intervals that are half of a whole step |
| 27% | GOVERNMENT | 10 | "The whole of ___ consists in the art of being honest": Jefferson |
| 26% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 |
| 26% | NATO | 4 | Grp. whose alphabet is used eight times in this puzzle |
| 26% | THY | 3 | Word used three times in the first four lines of the Lord's Prayer |
| 26% | GARLIC | 6 | Widely cultivated Asian plant whose bulb, made up of cloves, is used in cooking |
| 26% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose "Back in Black" is the second-best-selling album of all time |
| 26% | PBS | 3 | Network whose logo is a stylized depiction of three heads in profile |
| 26% | FAVRE | 5 | Hall of Fame quarterback Brett who was NFL MVP three consecutive times in the 1990s |
| 26% | NASTURTIUM | 10 | Genus of plants in the cabbage family whose round flat leaves are used in salads |
| 26% | RUE | 3 | Genus of evergreen shrubs including the common — whose bitter leaves are used in herbal medicine |
| 25% | NSYNC | 5 | Musical group whose album "No Strings Attached" was the highest-selling album of 2000 in the U.S. |
| 25% | AED | 3 | Device whose use is part of CPR certification |
| 25% | ARNICA | 6 | Genus of yellow-flowered plants whose dried flower heads are used in treating bruises |
| 23% | EPEE | 4 | One of three types of sword used in fencing |
| 23% | MIDDLE | 6 | The second child of three is in this position |
| 23% | ACT | 3 | One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| 23% | FEET | 4 | Three of these are in a yard |
| 23% | SEALS | 5 | Animals whose habitat can be found in the first three letters of their name |
| 23% | MRSWHO | 6 | One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time" |
| 23% | DIE | 3 | One of three used in a game of Cee-lo |
| 23% | IAMB | 4 | One of three in "To be or not to be" |
| 23% | LEECHES | 7 | Parasitic worms used for bloodletting in medieval times |
| 23% | QUAIDORSAY | 10 | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 23% | CALABASH | 8 | Tropical American evergreen tree whose gourds are used in the manufacture of tobacco pipe bowls |
| 23% | TRIO | 4 | What the holy group of three in 26a can be called |
| 23% | MOMENT | 6 | Medieval unit of time having 40 in an hour |
| 22% | ETAL | 4 | The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case |
| 22% | HYSSOP | 6 | Aromatic plant with spikes of small blue flowers whose leaves are used in cooking |