| 100% | ELM | 3 | Over 50% of the trees in NYC's Central Park are of this variety |
| 48% | TERN | 4 | The New Zealand fairy variety of this bird was down to less than 50 individuals in 2018 |
| 48% | FLAGDAY | 7 | June 14 celebration in all 50 U.S. states, which is hinted at in the names of the state trees in this puzzle (2 wds.) |
| 44% | ACRES | 5 | There are 843 of these in Central Park |
| 42% | YEW | 3 | Tree that was the source of the poison in Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye |
| 42% | LEI | 3 | The record for the world's longest one of these, at 5,336 feet, was set in Honolulu at Kapiolani Park in 2008 |
| 41% | JURASSIC | 8 | The park in Spielberg's dinosaur movie was this |
| 41% | EGG | 3 | This can be over 3 lb in the case of an ostrich |
| 41% | BATS | 4 | The fringe-lipped varieties of these central and south American critters are really good at catching frogs |
| 41% | TWINE | 5 | The ball in Cawker City, KS, which weighs over 20,000 lb., is made of this material |
| 41% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Bernie Sanders was captain of the track team at James Madison H. S. in this NY borough |
| 40% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 40% | EMBEDDED | 8 | Like aleph in the central black squares of this puzzle's grid |
| 40% | MANHATTAN | 9 | Borough of NYC where Central Park is found |
| 40% | CEL | 3 | In 1989 one of these from the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was sold at Sotheby's for $50,600 |
| 39% | CANADA | 6 | Most of the world's lakes are in this country |
| 39% | ARETE | 5 | The Minarets are this type of feature, prominent in California's Ansel Adams Wilderness |
| 38% | CORONAS | 7 | The "Gran" variety of these can be over 9 inches long, but then you have to slice off the end to use them |
| 38% | IMAGINE | 7 | Word at the center of a mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields |
| 38% | MASS | 4 | Boston is the Capital of this US State in the northeastern U.S. |
| 38% | RADIO | 5 | In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be broadcast over this |
| 38% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 38% | CHAMELEONS | 10 | The Namaqua varieties of these lizards can turn darker in cool conditions and lighter in warm and can even be half dark and half light |
| 37% | SANDSTONE | 9 | What the arches in Arches National Park are made of |
| 37% | CORTESE | 7 | Wines made from this grape variety are long known to be favored by restaurants in the port of Genoa |
| 37% | AIDS | 4 | There are over 1.2 million people in the US who are living with this disease, 1 in 8 of them don't know they have it yet |
| 37% | CAPTAIN | 7 | This person is in command of the ship |
| 37% | ATM | 3 | Installation of October 1997 in Canada's capital was the world's first talking one of these |
| 37% | VCR | 3 | The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 |
| 37% | MICROCHIPS | 10 | NASA's Apollo Program was the largest single consumer of these in the early 1960s |