| 100% | BADBLOOD | 8 | Phrase referring to enmity, especially in a family |
| 46% | CITES | 5 | Refers to in a footnote |
| 46% | CITE | 4 | Refer to in a footnote |
| 46% | CITE | 4 | Refer to, in a research paper |
| 46% | CITE | 4 | Refer to, in a term paper |
| 46% | CITES | 5 | Refers to, in a journal article |
| 44% | CITE | 4 | Refer to, as a source in an essay |
| 43% | FLEA | 4 | ___ market, phrase referring to a place where second-hand goods are sold |
| 43% | BRIDAL | 6 | Referring to a woman in the context of her wedding |
| 42% | IDAHOS | 6 | "Famous potatoes" referred to in a license plate slogan |
| 42% | PENGUINS | 8 | Animals referred to as a raft when in water |
| 42% | HELL | 4 | "All ___ broke loose," phrase referring to pandemonium that originated in Milton's "Paradise Lost" |
| 42% | MOOSHUPORK | 10 | What 57-Across might refer to in a Chinese restaurant |
| 42% | CHOUXPASTRY | 11 | What 57-Across might refer to in a French bakery |
| 41% | SHOOFLYPIE | 10 | What 57-Across might refer to in a Pennsylvania Dutch kitchen |
| 41% | SIGMA | 5 | Greek letter that refers to a lone wolf, in Gen-Z slang |
| 41% | SURRENDER | 9 | To give in, especially at the end of a battle |
| 41% | POW | 3 | Phrase used to showcase a punch effect in comic books |
| 40% | STORM | 5 | "___ in a teacup," weather related idiom that refers to excessive worry about something trivial |
| 40% | ALCOHOL | 7 | Word that refers to a liquid used in cocktails, which originated from Latin |
| 40% | PEAS | 4 | "Like two ___ in a pod," saying that refers to similarities between close friends |
| 40% | BONSAI | 6 | Japanese art form whose name, translated literally, refers to planting in a container |
| 39% | SLUR | 4 | In music, to perform smoothly a melodic phrase of two or more notes |
| 39% | TEAM | 4 | What there's no "I" in, according to a coaching phrase |
| 38% | DROID | 5 | Sci-fi term that refers to a robot in human-like form, popularized by "Star Wars" |
| 38% | FINALANSWER | 11 | Phrase uttered to lock in a response on 14-Across/19-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | PERFECT | 7 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Practice makes flawless" |
| 38% | WASTE | 5 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Haste makes trash" |
| 38% | DETAIL | 6 | "Attention to ___," complete the phrase with a word that ends in "ail" |
| 38% | CLARENCE | 8 | Darrow referred to as the "Attorney for the Damned" in a 2011 book by John A. Farrell |