| 100% | PERSEIDS | 8 | Name of a major 14-Across that peaks early in the week of August 12, 2019 |
| 39% | DORIS | 5 | Name of a weather bomb that hit the UK in 2017 |
| 39% | OOLONG | 6 | The name of a kind of tea that means "black dragon" in Chinese |
| 38% | ANSEL | 5 | First name in the name of a Yosemite peak |
| 38% | ASPEN | 5 | Tree that's the name of a city in Colorado |
| 37% | DEAL | 4 | Word that appears twice in the name of a game show hosted by Howie Mandel |
| 37% | REM | 3 | Band that took its name from a stage of sleep Michael Stipe found in the dictionary |
| 37% | EAST | 4 | Only cardinal direction that’s not in the name of a U.S. state |
| 37% | SEARS | 5 | Appliance giant that was once the name of a tower in Chicago |
| 37% | OLDTOWNROAD | 11 | Lil Nas X hit with a record-setting 143 million US streams in the week of April 20, 2019: 3 wds. |
| 36% | TEA | 3 | Item that Kenya exported to the tune of over a billion pounds in 2019 |
| 36% | SUN | 3 | Star that a day of the week is named after |
| 36% | EGG | 3 | ___ cream, misleading name of a drink that contains neither of the ingredients in its name |
| 36% | SUGARPLUM | 9 | Christmas treat that's also the name of a fairy in "The Nutcracker" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | EAST | 4 | Only cardinal direction that does not appear in the name of a U.S. state |
| 36% | HAL | 3 | Name that's one of the halves of a word in this clue |
| 36% | EDINBURGH | 9 | A town in Indiana that shares its name with the capital of Scotland |
| 36% | AOL | 3 | Co. involved in a major merger of the early two-thousands |
| 35% | PAPARAZZI | 9 | Term that comes from the name of a news photographer in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” |
| 35% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 35% | WWE | 3 | Org. that replaced the “F” in its name because of a legal dispute |
| 34% | YAHOO | 5 | Word coined by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" that's now also the name of a popular email service |
| 34% | STANFORD | 8 | ___ University, located in California, that played a major role in the establishment of the Silicon Valley |
| 34% | BOSC | 4 | Pear named after a professor of the Paris Jardin des plantes in the early 19th century |
| 34% | RAMSBOTTOM | 10 | Town in Greater Manchester that shares its name with a snake companion of the puppet Sooty |
| 34% | COLDOPEN | 8 | Certain TV intro ... or a description of each of 12 letters in the grid (the starts of six Across entries and then six Down entries) that spell out an alternate title for this puzzle |
| 34% | TMC | 3 | Run ___ (nickname of a star trio that played for the Golden State Warriors in the early '90s) |
| 33% | HER | 3 | Singer nominated for Album of the Year Grammys in 2019 and 2020 (and whose name spells a pronoun) |
| 33% | CROUCHEND | 9 | Area in the London Borough of Haringey that shares its name with a 1980 Stephen King short story |
| 33% | ASSISTANTEDITOR | 15 | Name in the middle of a masthead |