100% | KIN | 3 | Next of ___ (relative to be contacted in an emergency) |
50% | NEXTOFKIN | 9 | Contacts in an emergency |
47% | UKE | 3 | The art of being able to respond to an oncoming attack in Judo |
46% | AHEADOFTHEGAME | 14 | In an advantageous position, or where both halves of the answers to 20-, 26-, and 44-Across can be placed? |
46% | PATHETIC | 8 | To be pitiful in an embarrassing way |
46% | ANYPORTINASTORM | 15 | In an emergency, accept whatever help is offered |
45% | METAPHOR | 8 | Figure of speech in which an expression applied to one thing is used to designate another |
44% | MISSIONHILL | 11 | In an effort to contain their methane-laden burps, cows are being cordoned off to a patch of elevated land that farmers are dubbing ...
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44% | MATTE | 5 | Mask used to blank out part of an image in a film so that another can be superimposed |
44% | ADJOIN | 6 | To be in close contact with, affixed |
43% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | What a person in an emergency might have to make |
43% | SOS | 3 | An emergency signal of distress in radio code |
43% | STERILE | 7 | Fit to be used in an operating room |
43% | CHIPPERJONES | 12 | Second overall #1 draft pick to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, an infielder drafted by the Braves in 1990: 2 wds. |
42% | KIN | 3 | Next of this is a person's closest relative |
42% | MIMED | 5 | Appeared to be trapped in an invisible box, maybe |
42% | STAIRS | 6 | They may be taken in an emergency |
42% | NEARESTEXIT | 11 | Something to look for in an emergency |
42% | BROADSHOULDERED | 15 | Place to pull over in an emergency |
42% | SEATFILLER | 10 | One paid to be in an audience |
42% | OPTIC | 5 | Choose to be in charge of vision |
42% | ENVIES | 6 | Wishes to be in the shoes of |
42% | KENGRIFFEYJR | 12 | First overall #1 draft pick to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, an outfielder drafted by the Mariners in 1987: 3 wds., abbr. |
42% | HAROLDBAINES | 12 | Third overall #1 draft pick to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, an outfielder drafted by the White Sox in 1977: 2 wds. |
42% | INHABITANT | 10 | Is an __ of; lives in |
42% | IDEA | 4 | Using a CFL bulb to represent one of these instead of an incandescent bulb might be a great one in itself! |
42% | KIN | 3 | Next of ___ (person who often receives money in a will) |
42% | HEIR | 4 | Next in line, to an estate |
42% | LIEU | 4 | In ___ of (as an alternative to) |
41% | VEEP | 4 | Show whose title character likened her job to being “sealed in an abandoned coal mine under two miles of human shit” |