| 100% | BEGTHEQUESTION | 14 | Reach a conclusion by assuming one's conclusion is true |
| 50% | BYTRIALANDERROR | 15 | One way a conclusion is reached |
| 40% | APHASIC | 7 | One whose speech is affected by a stroke |
| 38% | AGENDA | 6 | One is usually set by a chair |
| 38% | MENTEE | 6 | One who is guided by a mentor |
| 38% | SPAMBOT | 7 | One may be foiled by a captcha |
| 38% | KOTO | 4 | One may be played by a geisha |
| 38% | BROW | 4 | One might be raised by a skeptic |
| 38% | SAYMYNAME | 9 | A song by Destiny's Child - Beyonce's original band - which is now considered one of their signature songs: 3 wds. |
| 38% | POEM | 4 | A short one by Ogden Nash reads "Parsley / is gharsley" |
| 38% | POPE | 4 | A new one is signaled by white smoke |
| 37% | NAIL | 4 | A broken one might be repaired by a manicurist |
| 37% | SELLOUT | 7 | One would be really disappointed to find this on reaching a movie theatre: Hyph. |
| 36% | BAYMARE | 7 | Secretariat's mother, for one ... whose start is a state nickname for the state indicated by the circled squares |
| 36% | ORC | 3 | The Uruk-Hai bred by the Wizard Saruman of Tolkein's Isengard, is a particularly large one of these |
| 36% | ATTIC | 5 | Room that is often reached by a ladder |
| 36% | ECONOMISTS | 10 | "If all ___ were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion" (quip attributed to Shaw) |
| 36% | STARBOY | 7 | The Weeknd's 2016 album, that has a single by the same name, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 |
| 36% | KELLYCLARKSON | 13 | One Direction's "Tell Me a Lie" was written by ___, winner of the first season of "American Idol": 2 wds. |
| 36% | PUZZLE | 6 | Pieces of one are often cut by a jigsaw |
| 36% | SAINT | 5 | Ulrich was the first one created by a pope |
| 36% | KEPT | 4 | Was true to, as one's word |
| 36% | MAYBELLENE | 10 | Song by 17-Across in which he asks a girl, "Why can't you be true?" |
| 36% | STOODALONE | 10 | Was by one's self |
| 35% | END | 3 | Reach a conclusion |
| 35% | DEDUCED | 7 | Reached a conclusion |
| 35% | ENDED | 5 | Reached a conclusion |
| 35% | FITIN | 5 | Be accepted by one's peers |
| 35% | SING | 4 | "One's Self I ___," poem by Walt Whitman which is a part of 21a |
| 35% | CHECKBOUNCING | 13 | It may be avoided by keeping one's balance |