| 100% | SMITH | 5 | Northampton school that's been removed from 22 Across |
| 71% | RICE | 4 | Houston school that's been removed from 78 Across |
| 71% | EMORY | 5 | Atlanta school that's been removed from 67 Across |
| 56% | MIT | 3 | Cambridge sch. that's been removed from 43 Across |
| 45% | LOSTMEDIA | 9 | Show that's been removed from streaming without a physical release, e.g. |
| 45% | MSU | 3 | East Lansing sch. that's been removed from 14 Down |
| 45% | UNC | 3 | Chapel Hill sch. that's been removed from 3 Down |
| 43% | CARBONOFFSETS | 13 | They fund projects that remove a gas from the atmosphere, which is a hint to what's happening in four Across answers |
| 39% | ERASABLE | 8 | Like ink that can be removed from the page |
| 37% | BACKTOTHEDRAWINGBOARD | 21 | "___? That's when an artist is facing away from a drafting table" |
| 37% | PRINCEON | 8 | Notification that the "Purple Rain" rocker is performing right now? (going from a school in New Jersey ...) |
| 37% | BEVERLYHILLS | 12 | Single from the album "Make Believe" that was 42-Across's first Top 10 hit (2 wds.) |
| 36% | PRIZE | 5 | Item that was removed from boxes of Cracker Jack in 2016 |
| 35% | IMHOT | 5 | Words that might be heard from a sweater removing a sweater |
| 34% | HAPPY | 5 | "___ Working Song," song from Disney's "Enchanted" that is a work-themed tune |
| 34% | POWERHOUSE | 10 | "The mitochondria is the ___ of the cell," famous line heard during Biology that is a funny and unexpected memory from school |
| 34% | LAMP | 4 | Magical object from Disney's "Aladdin" that was home to the genie |
| 34% | REDS | 4 | M&M's that were removed from 1976 to 1987 out of a health concern for a coloring dye |
| 34% | ANO | 3 | "That's gonna be ___ from me, dawg" |
| 34% | UNTO | 4 | "Render ___ Caesar the things that are Caesar's ..." (quote from the New Testament) |
| 34% | SDSU | 4 | Calif. school that's about 20 miles from the Mexican border |
| 33% | TINS | 4 | Spam is removed from them |
| 33% | TRAPPERJOHNMD | 13 | Pernell Roberts show that was spun off from "M*A*S*H": 3 wds. |
| 33% | EGGO | 4 | Kellogg's brand that can be spelled from "Kellogg's" |
| 33% | MAGIC | 5 | The ___ Mirror, object from Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" that was sentient |
| 32% | ASIA | 4 | Continent that's across the Pacific from North America |
| 32% | DONE | 4 | Ready to be removed from the oven |
| 32% | OUTOFTHEWOODS | 13 | Song from Taylor Swift's "1989" that is rumored to be about Harry Styles: 4 wds. |
| 32% | FIRE | 4 | Did you know that the book "___ from Heaven" by Mary Renault is about 44a's childhood? |