| 100% | WHEATSON | 8 | Parent's boy who grows a crop full of gluten? (... to a school in Massachusetts) |
| 37% | BAYLORE | 7 | Legends of San Francisco's body of water? (... to a school in Texas) |
| 36% | HOWIE | 5 | ___ Dorough, member of the group "Backstreet Boys" who released a solo album "Back to Me" in 2011 |
| 33% | HARRYPOTTER | 11 | Boy who may see a goblet of fire in this grid |
| 32% | BEARD | 5 | Those who grew one in 1700s Russia had to pay a tax |
| 32% | ALGORE | 6 | Veep who went to a Graduate School of Religion |
| 32% | JOHNNYONTHESPOT | 15 | Person who's ready and able to help ... or a literal description of four occurrences in this puzzle |
| 31% | PTA | 3 | Teachers and parents in cooperation for betterment of a school (abbr) |
| 31% | ORCA | 4 | Predator that can grow to roughly the size of a school bus |
| 31% | COLDPLAY | 8 | Band who had a Rush of Blood to the Head in 2002 |
| 31% | TIME | 4 | What's seen on a clock ... and an invisible ingredient for farmers to grow the crops you see in the puzzle |
| 30% | ORCA | 4 | Sea predator that can grow to roughly the size of a school bus |
| 30% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Children's author of 18-Across and 30-Across who has a public school named for her in Portland, Oregon (2 wds.) |
| 30% | CALLUMTURNER | 12 | "Fantastic Beasts" actor who plays a University of Washington rower in "The Boys in the Boat" (2 wds.) |
| 30% | ABRONXTALE | 10 | Robert De Niro's crime film about the story of a young Italian-American boy who gets involved in organized crime: 3 wds. |
| 30% | ADLER | 5 | Irene who's central to the scandal of "A Scandal in Bohemia" |
| 30% | CARTER | 6 | Nick ___, member of the group "Backstreet Boys" who released a solo album titled "All American" in 2015 |
| 30% | ALUM | 4 | Member belonging to a group of people who all went to the same school : Abbr. |
| 29% | STAGEMOM | 8 | Parent who hangs out in the wings of a theater, perhaps: 2 wds. |
| 29% | TOYSRUSKID | 10 | One who doesn't want to grow up, in a jingle |
| 29% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 29% | DAD | 3 | Parent who's celebrated on a Sunday in June |
| 29% | RAH | 3 | Cheer syllable repeated in the chorus of the Beach Boys song "Be True to Your School" |
| 29% | ELENAKAGAN | 10 | Dean of Harvard Law School in 2003-9, who became a Supreme Court Justice in 2010 |
| 29% | HESPERIDES | 10 | Daughters of evening in Greek mythology who guarded a tree bearing golden apples belonging to Hera |
| 29% | EGON | 4 | Spengler of the Ghostbusters series who once tried to drill a hole in his own head |
| 29% | WALDO | 5 | Character who young readers tried to find in a series of books |
| 29% | ART{LOVE}R | 10 | Someone who might dream of running away to live in a museum |
| 29% | NICHOLASHOULT | 13 | "About a Boy" actor who starred in "Mad Max" as Nux, as a member of Immortan Joe's army: 2 wds. |
| 29% | CAP | 3 | A feather in one's ___ (achievement to be proud of) |