| 100% | OED | 3 | Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry |
| 39% | PEAFOWL | 7 | Species of bird in which the male has a fantastically colorful tail |
| 38% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 38% | OED | 3 | Publ. where the verb "set" takes approx. 60,000 words to describe |
| 37% | AGENTNOUN | 9 | In grammar, a word for the performer of a verb |
| 35% | ALA | 3 | Words on a menu which means "cooked in the style of": 2 wds. |
| 35% | NEWS | 4 | Word that has a backronymic false etymology rooted in the cardinal directions |
| 35% | FAERIES | 7 | Creatures of which Gloriana is the “Queene,” in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| 34% | NORWEGIANWOOD | 13 | Words preceding the parenthetical "(This Bird Has Flown)" in a 1965 Beatles song title: 2 wds. |
| 34% | MOM | 3 | Soccer ___, ADS Word of the Year in 1996 which is a type of suburban parent |
| 33% | BOLERO | 6 | Ravel work in which the melody is passed among the instruments |
| 33% | NAVIGATION | 10 | The "nav" in "Satnav," a word which comes from the Sanskrit word "Navagatha," which also means the same |
| 33% | OVEN | 4 | Have a bun in the ___ |
| 33% | NEWYORK | 7 | City in which the UN has its headquarters |
| 33% | BALTIMORE | 9 | Maryland city in which The Wire was set |
| 33% | NEWYORK | 7 | City in which the sitcom Seinfeld is set |
| 33% | CAMBODIA | 8 | Country in which The Killing Fields is set |
| 33% | COLOMBIA | 8 | Country in which the film Encanto is set |
| 33% | ETA | 3 | Stat in which the A stands for "arrival" |
| 33% | WEST | 4 | Direction in which the sun sets |
| 33% | EXIST | 5 | Have a place in the world |
| 33% | BATHE | 5 | Have a soak in the tub |
| 32% | THRIFTSHOP | 10 | A 2012 hit by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis which has the line "only got 20 dollars in my pocket": 2 wds |
| 32% | ALA | 3 | State in which the film "Selma" is set (Abbr.) |
| 32% | MIAMI | 5 | City in which the 2016 film "Moonlight" is set |
| 32% | LAO | 3 | Language in which the majority of words are monosyllabic |
| 32% | TAP | 3 | Dance in which the shoes create a rhythmic sound |
| 32% | LSITS | 5 | Exercises in which the body forms a right angle |
| 32% | ALA | 3 | State, in short, which had as its first permanent capital the community of Cahaba, now a ghost town |
| 32% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |