| 100% | NEMESES | 7 | Sinestro and Professor Zoom, in their respective universes |
| 36% | LAST | 4 | Like “Z” and omega in their respective alphabets |
| 33% | LAST | 4 | Like the letters “Z” and omega, in their respective alphabets |
| 32% | LENS | 4 | Camera part that can zoom in and out |
| 32% | IPOS | 4 | Zoom and Lyft had them in 2019 |
| 32% | POLE | 4 | 2020 Olympic even won by Armand Duplantis and Katie Nageotte in their respective competitions |
| 32% | POLEVAULT | 9 | 2020 Olympic event won by Armand Duplantis and Katie Moon in their respective competitions |
| 31% | AGE | 3 | Middle ___ (life phase for people in their 40s and 50s) |
| 31% | GARBAGEHAULERS | 14 | Their trucks play music in Japan and Taiwan |
| 31% | BEERS | 5 | Their heads and bodies may be critiqued in bars |
| 30% | OPAL | 4 | Fusion of Amethyst and Pearl in "Steven Universe" |
| 30% | LEIA | 4 | Princess and general in the “Star Wars” universe |
| 29% | IPOS | 4 | Uber and Lyft had theirs in 2019, for short |
| 29% | THREEPRESIDENTS | 15 | Their initials can be found consecutively in 16-, 24- and 42-Across |
| 29% | CDS | 3 | Their sales rose in 2021 and 2022, after two decades of decline |
| 29% | HOWARDSBEND | 11 | Film in which Moe, Shemp and Curly show their flexibility? |
| 29% | VISHNU | 6 | Preserver and protector of the universe in the Hindu Trimurti |
| 29% | ODIN | 4 | Father of Thor in both myth and the Marvel Universe |
| 29% | NOTEBOOK | 8 | Diary McAdams and Gosling had in their film |
| 28% | POLEVAULT | 9 | 2016 Olympic event won by Thiago Braz da Silva and Katerina Stefanidi in their respective competitions |
| 28% | HIGHJUMP | 8 | 2012 Olympics individual field event won by Ivan Ukhov and Anna Chicherova in their respective competitions |
| 28% | XMEN | 4 | Wolverine and Cyclops, in the Marvel universe |
| 28% | EMMYS | 5 | Prizes won by 4- and 16-Across (and their stars) in 2024 |
| 27% | RIO | 3 | 2011 animated film about blue macaws and their animal friends in Brazil |
| 27% | PROTON | 6 | Professor ___, fictional science show host who inspired Leonard and Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory" |
| 27% | FLEE | 4 | What Bonnie and Clyde did successfully until their ambush in 1934 in Louisiana |
| 27% | PARR | 4 | Family name for Bob, Helen, and their kids in Pixar's "The Incredibles" |
| 27% | MYTHS | 5 | "Touching a toad causes warts" and "Ostriches stick their heads in the sand" |
| 27% | ENLARGE | 7 | Zoom in |
| 26% | RICHARDADAMS | 12 | Writer who created Fiver, Hazel, and their fellow rabbits in "Watership Down": 2 wds. |