| 100% | CIRCLES | 7 | Round patterns that appear in fields of crops |
| 41% | RICE | 4 | Crop that thrives in waterlogged fields and takes nearly 6 months of hard work by farmers before reaching our plates |
| 41% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 41% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 40% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird that appears in the Great Seal on the back of a dollar bill |
| 39% | PERSONALAD | 10 | Where "Desperately Seeking Susan" appears in the film of that name |
| 37% | MEERKATS | 8 | Highly social African mammals that appear in "Life of Pi" |
| 37% | DOME | 4 | Roof of a cathedral that is usually rounded in shape |
| 37% | DIE | 3 | Word that appears in the titles of three Bond films (or four, if you count one ending in “s”) |
| 37% | DEAL | 4 | Word that appears twice in the name of a game show hosted by Howie Mandel |
| 36% | ORB | 3 | Round object that contains a prophecy in the Ministry of Magic, in "Harry Potter" |
| 36% | PATTY | 5 | Flattened round cake of ground meat that could go in a hamburger |
| 36% | SWISS | 5 | ___ cheese, classic fondue ingredient that has a pattern of "holes" in it |
| 36% | ANOA | 4 | Small Asian bovine that often appears out of the blue in crosswords |
| 35% | COMMA | 5 | Punctuation mark that might appear many times in a long list of words |
| 35% | CYAN | 4 | "C" in CMYK ... or a bright shade of 38a that may appear green |
| 35% | ELM | 3 | Type of tree that appears in the title of a horror movie franchise |
| 35% | ONE | 3 | Number of beers that fall off the wall in each round of the song |
| 35% | CUB | 3 | Member of the ball club that plays home games in Chicago's Wrigley Field |
| 34% | SELAH | 5 | Word of uncertain meaning that appears in the Bible seventy-four times |
| 34% | RING | 4 | Bell ___, loud chiming sound that signals the start or end of a round in boxing |
| 34% | SHANANA | 7 | Musical group that appeared in "Grease" |
| 34% | EMAIL | 5 | Message that appears in an inbox |
| 34% | CAMO | 4 | Pattern that blends in |
| 34% | THESISSTATEMENT | 15 | Sentence that often appears in the first paragraph of an essay |
| 34% | CROP | 4 | Something of interest that's in your own field |
| 34% | POPLARS | 7 | Trees that appear in many Monet paintings |
| 34% | SHANANA | 7 | Group that appeared in the movie "Grease" |
| 34% | OBI | 3 | Band that appears in many Japanese performances |
| 34% | ORK | 3 | Alien planet that appears in "Happy Days" |