| 100% | RIPE | 4 | Project funded in part by the Gates Foundation that aims to boost agricultural production to help reduce global hunger |
| 25% | ACL | 3 | Part of HHS created in 2012 that aims to "maximize the independence, well-being, and health of older adults and people with disabilities" among others (abbr.) |
| 24% | KETO | 4 | Diet that's high in fats and low in carbs, as illustrated by parts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 24% | FIN | 3 | Part of the fish body that helps in propelling, steering |
| 23% | MALARIA | 7 | Disease that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is attempting to eradicate |
| 23% | PORE | 4 | Part of the skin that can be minimized by foundation |
| 23% | CARBONOFFSETS | 13 | They fund projects that remove a gas from the atmosphere, which is a hint to what's happening in four Across answers |
| 23% | PLANE | 5 | Playful paper projects! Flight that may be created as an origami craft, and used by kids to pretend-fly in the air |
| 23% | RECHARGE | 8 | To boost the battery of a device by plugging it in |
| 23% | SALIENTS | 8 | Parts of the line of battle that project closest to the enemy |
| 23% | FEDEX | 5 | Company started in 1971 by Frederick Smith that today has the corporate motto "Helping you get back to business" |
| 22% | PLY | 3 | Tissue paper layer that was reduced to half by Dwight in an episode of "The Office" |
| 22% | GAMESTOP | 8 | Company that Redditors boosted to cause billions in losses to hedge funds in 2021 |
| 22% | MAUMAU | 6 | — Uprising, nationalist insurgency in Kenya during the 1950s that aimed to overthrow British rule |
| 21% | BOOGALOO | 8 | Dance that James Brown helped to popularize in the sixties |
| 21% | BALLJOINT | 9 | *Car part that works in a similar manner to the human hip |
| 21% | BALLJOINT | 9 | Car part that works in a similar manner to the human hip |
| 21% | EYES | 4 | Parts of the Mona Lisa that seem to follow you |
| 21% | MALARIA | 7 | Disease targeted for eradication by the Gates Foundation |
| 21% | MUCH | 4 | "That Don't Impress Me ___," 1998 song by Shania Twain that refers to Brad Pitt in the lyrics |
| 21% | PICA | 4 | Largest branch of the vertebral blood flow mechanism that in part supplies blood to your cerebellum (abbr.) |
| 21% | AVE | 3 | Org, launched by Google Ideas in 2011 and managed by ISD, that aims to push back again radical and terrorist attitudes (abbr.) |
| 21% | LIS | 3 | Portal established by the US Dept. of Agric. that aims to get a better crop yield from your bean fields |
| 21% | INCOMETAX | 9 | Personal charge introduced in Britain by William Pitt the Younger in 1798 to help finance war against France |
| 21% | SSL | 3 | Abbreviation for the global inshore yachting circuit that hopes to bring together almost 100,000 athletes in 2021 |
| 21% | STAMP | 5 | Elvis Presley Forever ___, tribute to Elvis Presley that was released by the U.S. Postal Service in 2015 |
| 20% | CANDLE | 6 | "___ in the Wind 1997," charity single by Elton John that was rewritten as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 20% | USO | 3 | Grp. founded in part by the Y.M.C.A. |
| 20% | CRAZYFORYOU | 11 | 1985 pop song by Madonna that is a part of the soundtrack to the film "Vision Quest": 3 wds. |