| 100% | PHOENIX | 7 | Mythical bird that rises from its own ashes (or the capital of 51-Across) |
| 51% | PHOENIX | 7 | Mythical bird that rises from the ashes |
| 45% | PHOENIX | 7 | Mythical bird that rises from ashes |
| 45% | PHOENIX | 7 | Bird that rose from its ashes |
| 43% | PHOENIX | 7 | Bird that rises from the ashes |
| 42% | PHOENIX | 7 | Legendary bird that rose from the ashes |
| 42% | PHOENIX | 7 | Mythic bird that rises from the ashes; actor Joaquin |
| 39% | PHOENIX | 7 | Bird that ignites in flames to rise from the ashes |
| 36% | PHOENIX | 7 | Mythological bird that rises from ashes |
| 35% | PHOENIX | 7 | Mythical bird that is reborn from ashes |
| 33% | PHOENIX | 7 | Bird rising from the ashes |
| 33% | PHOENIX | 7 | It rose from the ashes |
| 32% | LARKS | 5 | Birds that do things just for the fun of it? |
| 31% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital or the name of its gulf |
| 31% | REO | 3 | 1976 rock album, or the first word of the band that made it |
| 30% | KEWPIEDOLL | 10 | Toy that gets its name from the Roman god of love |
| 29% | BOISE | 5 | State capital that has the same number of letters as its state |
| 29% | RABAT | 5 | Capital across the river from its sister city Salé |
| 29% | YEMEN | 5 | It's across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia |
| 29% | OCTAVIA | 7 | Butler who wrote, “In order to rise / From its own ashes / A phoenix / First / Must / Burn” |
| 29% | BEAT | 4 | "___ It," song from 14a that won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 1984 |
| 29% | TBONE | 5 | Type of steak that takes its name from a letter of the alphabet: Hyph. |
| 29% | DUCK | 4 | Bird that can precede the starts of 20-, 30-, 36-, 46- and 52-Across |
| 28% | LABRADOR | 8 | It's across the Strait of Belle Isle from Newfoundland |
| 28% | TANDEM | 6 | Type of bicycle from the 19th century that is built for two or more riders |
| 28% | PHOENIX | 7 | Rises from the ashes |
| 28% | REBORN | 6 | Risen from the ashes |
| 28% | SEAMOUNT | 8 | Elevation that rises from the ocean floor |
| 28% | REM | 3 | Band that took its name from a stage of sleep Michael Stipe found in the dictionary |
| 28% | MALEV | 5 | Airline that was the flag carrier of Hungary from 1946 until it declared insolvency in 2012 |