| 100% | SCORPIONFISH | 12 | One of a family of bottom-dwelling marine fish of the Indo-Pacific noted for their venomous spines |
| 36% | ANGLER | 6 | Bottom-dwelling predacious fish of the goosefish family |
| 34% | STINGRAY | 8 | Marine creature with one or more venomous spines at the base of the tail |
| 32% | CLOG | 4 | One of a pair in the mule family? |
| 31% | BLOODLINE | 9 | The lineage of a family, particularly a royal one |
| 31% | FACE | 4 | One of a couple for the Roman god 28-Across |
| 31% | SMELT | 5 | Small marine food fish of the salmon family |
| 31% | DOT | 3 | One of the punctuations for a URL |
| 30% | HEIRS | 5 | Ones gathering for the reading of a will |
| 30% | SEEME | 5 | Note at the bottom of a plagiarized paper, perhaps |
| 30% | CRABBING | 8 | Fishing for crustaceans at the end of a line |
| 30% | KNOCKOUT | 8 | One of the reasons for ending a boxing match |
| 30% | SEC | 3 | One of the sixty in a minute, for short |
| 30% | TREKKIE | 7 | One term for a follower of the USS Enterprise |
| 30% | WHO | 3 | One of the five W's for a journalist |
| 30% | PET | 3 | Canine member of the family, for one |
| 30% | SEASNAKE | 8 | Venomous marine creature of the Indian and Pacific Oceans such as the yellow-bellied — |
| 30% | SEAANEMONE | 10 | One of a group of water-dwelling animals of the order Actinaria |
| 30% | NOOSE | 5 | End of a rope for someone at the end of their life |
| 30% | MULLET | 6 | Marine fish that's also the name of a hairstyle |
| 30% | MAGICBEAN | 9 | One of five for which Jack traded the family cow |
| 30% | MEN | 3 | One of the signs on a bathroom door, for example |
| 30% | STEER | 5 | Control the movement of a vessel, for one |
| 29% | GRAYLING | 8 | Freshwater food fish of the salmon family with a long high dorsal fin |
| 29% | SOPHIEHANNAH | 12 | Author of the novels A Game for All the Family and Little Face |
| 29% | MIGRATION | 9 | 2023 animated film about a family of ducks going south for the winter |
| 29% | BLOODTEST | 9 | One of the methods for identifying a 17-Across of Alzheimer's disease |
| 29% | PIP | 3 | One of the clubs on a 7 of clubs, for example |
| 29% | COCCYX | 6 | Medical name for a tailbone, base of the spine |
| 29% | AMT | 3 | Figure at the bottom of a bill, for short |