| 100% | RIFE | 4 | Really, really abundant, like the tundra around Utqiagvik, Alaska is with mosquitoes |
| 35% | HAS | 3 | Is afflicted with, like the flu |
| 33% | SHLEP | 5 | Haul around with you, like the whole visiting mishpocha |
| 31% | IFEELFREE | 9 | Cream song with the lyric "Dance floor is like the sea, / Ceiling is the sky" |
| 31% | GWENSTEFANI | 11 | Singer with the 2016 #1 album "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" |
| 31% | DNA | 3 | Kendrick Lamar hit with the lyric “I was born like this” |
| 30% | RAE | 3 | Singer Carly ___ Jepsen with the hit "I Really Like You" |
| 30% | SHREK | 5 | Animated movie with the classic quote "Ogres are like onions" |
| 30% | HITTHECEILING | 13 | Got really upset while trying to frighten off whatever was scuffling around in the rafters? |
| 30% | OMAR | 4 | Congresswoman with the 2020 memoir “This Is What America Looks Like” |
| 29% | MISTY | 5 | Like the air around waterfalls |
| 29% | NITRO | 5 | Prefix with "gen" that is the most abundant gas in our atmosphere |
| 29% | MISTY | 5 | Like the air around Niagara Falls |
| 29% | FOGGY | 5 | Like the weather around lighthouses, often |
| 29% | SMOKY | 5 | Like the air around a campfire |
| 29% | MISTY | 5 | Like the air around a waterfall |
| 29% | THISISNTMY | 10 | With 87-Across, "I've been around the block a few times" [ref. 23-Across] |
| 29% | DNA | 3 | 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric "I was born like this" |
| 28% | FOURTH | 6 | "May the ___ be with you" ...Star Wars Day pun like the ones at 37a, 44a, 4d and 42d |
| 28% | ASHY | 4 | Like the area around an erupting volcano |
| 28% | FOGGY | 5 | Like the weather around a lighthouse, maybe |
| 28% | CIS | 3 | Like one whose gender identity corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth, for short |
| 28% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line "My tears are falling like rain from the sky" |
| 28% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line “My tears are falling like rain from the sky” |
| 28% | VILE | 4 | Really awful, like the taste of some medicines |
| 28% | ALL | 3 | The exams are right around the corner! Get together with your friends for an ___-night study session |
| 28% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 27% | TEENIEWEENIE | 12 | Really skimpy, like the polka-dot bikini of song |
| 27% | AMPLE | 5 | Like the space around a first-class seat, say |
| 27% | IRON | 4 | ___ Maiden, a hugely popular metal band with hits like "Fear of the Dark" and "Hallowed Be Thy Name" |