| 100% | PLANTING | 8 | Process of putting a bush or seed into the ground |
| 42% | PLANT | 5 | Put into the ground, like a new shrub |
| 39% | FUSION | 6 | The process of joining two or more things into one |
| 39% | SOWING | 6 | The act of putting seeds into the soil |
| 39% | GRAIN | 5 | The seed or fruit of a plant used for cereal |
| 37% | ADHESION | 8 | The action or process of sticking to a surface |
| 36% | TEE | 3 | Short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground |
| 36% | UPROOT | 6 | Pull out of the ground, as a plant or tree |
| 36% | COFFEE | 6 | Hot beverage made from the roasted and ground seeds of a tropical Old World shrub |
| 36% | NUTMEG | 6 | Aromatic spice made by grinding or grating the seed of an East Indian evergreen tree |
| 36% | INTER | 5 | Put into the ground |
| 36% | XXXXXXX | 7 | Put into the ground |
| 35% | PERCOLATE | 9 | Infiltrate; like water into the ground, or coffee |
| 35% | TUNNEL | 6 | Passageway dug into the ground by a mole |
| 35% | BURY | 4 | Put a corpse in the ground |
| 34% | PLANTING | 8 | Process of placing seedlings in the ground |
| 34% | ARIL | 4 | Technical name for that part of a nutmeg seed that is ground into the spice mace |
| 34% | PLANTING | 8 | Putting seeds in the ground |
| 34% | LAND | 4 | Put a plane back on the ground |
| 34% | SOW | 3 | Put seed in the ground |
| 34% | CAMPUS | 6 | The grounds and buildings of a college |
| 34% | SOW | 3 | Put seeds in the ground |
| 34% | MIDAUGHTS | 9 | Part of the George W. Bush era ... or a hint to part of 18-, 26-, 38- and 46-Across |
| 33% | BURIAL | 6 | Act of putting a dead body in a grave or tomb |
| 33% | FLOWERING | 9 | Process of turning from a bud into a bloom |
| 33% | TYPE | 4 | Put into a spreadsheet or word-processing document, say |
| 33% | QUILTING | 8 | The process of making a patchwork bedspread |
| 33% | SINK | 4 | Roll into the hole, as a putt |
| 33% | ROLL | 4 | With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record ... or the start, middle and end of a word ladder |
| 33% | LAND | 4 | To put a plane back on the ground |