| 100% | SHADE | 5 | Retreat from the 102-Down |
| 65% | EBB | 3 | Retreat from the sand |
| 65% | OASES | 5 | Retreats from the heat |
| 56% | ALOW | 4 | Down from the deck |
| 55% | SUN | 3 | "Away from the ___" (3 Doors Down album) |
| 53% | NEARTO | 6 | Just down the road from |
| 52% | AUSSIE | 6 | Person from the "land down under," for short |
| 52% | PISA | 4 | City down the river from Florence |
| 52% | TELAVIV | 7 | Port down the coast from Beirut |
| 52% | EIEIO | 5 | Letters from down on the farm? |
| 52% | NAPOLI | 6 | City down the coast from Roma |
| 52% | NICE | 4 | City down the coast from Monaco |
| 52% | SARASOTA | 8 | City down the coast from Tampa |
| 51% | BOCA | 4 | City down the coast from West Palm |
| 51% | ERIE | 4 | It's down the lake from Buffalo |
| 51% | LANDS | 5 | Comes down from the air |
| 50% | ROE | 3 | 17 Downs from the sea |
| 50% | BERRY | 5 | Word to "hang" from the last word of each long Down answer |
| 50% | ERIEPA | 6 | City down the lake from Buffalo, N.Y. |
| 50% | MIT | 3 | Prestigious university down the road from Harvard: Abbr. |
| 50% | OFF | 3 | "Get down from the couch, Fido!" |
| 49% | ODOR | 4 | Smell from the 31-Down |
| 49% | GLUTTONY | 8 | Sin whose name derives from the Latin for “to gulp down or swallow” |
| 49% | SNOWS | 5 | Comes down from the sky in flakes |
| 47% | RAINS | 5 | "I bless the ___ down in Africa" (lyrics from Toto's "Africa") |
| 46% | UVULA | 5 | It hangs down from the soft palate |
| 46% | STARTINGTODAY | 13 | Song by Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia from the album "Counting Down the Days": 2 wds. |
| 46% | AGAIN | 5 | Excited demand from a toddler who just came down the slide, maybe |
| 46% | SIDEBURNS | 9 | Facial hair grown from the ears down to the chin |
| 45% | EASE | 4 | "___ on Down the Road" (song from "The Wiz") |