| 100% | BUSTLE | 6 | Smashed by the French activity |
| 54% | STARTLE | 7 | Shock beginning by the French |
| 54% | TRIPLE | 6 | Multiply journey by the French |
| 53% | LOOM | 4 | Item smashed by the original Luddites |
| 52% | FEUDALISM | 9 | Social system abolished by the French Assembly |
| 52% | CRADLE | 6 | Delicately hold card broken by the French |
| 52% | FANION | 6 | Small flag used by the French military |
| 51% | EURO | 4 | Currency used by the French and the Finnish |
| 51% | ALAMO | 5 | Texan landmark has article by the French doctor |
| 51% | ALAMO | 5 | Battle to get article by the French doctor |
| 51% | KISS | 4 | Kind of a smooch given by the French? |
| 51% | LECTURE | 7 | The French truce affected by talk |
| 50% | BERETS | 6 | Flat wool caps with stalks, worn by the French |
| 49% | DAUPHIN | 7 | Title once held by the French king's eldest son |
| 49% | LECTURE | 7 | The French caught by true form of sermon |
| 49% | LASAGNE | 7 | The French sang about energy given by food |
| 49% | AVA | 3 | "___ Adore," song by The Smashing Pumpkins |
| 48% | IDLECHATTER | 11 | Activity by the water cooler |
| 48% | COROT | 5 | Acronym for a former space telescope mission by the French Space Agency |
| 45% | CAEN | 4 | French city once held by William the Conqueror |
| 45% | VOYAGE | 6 | 1977 eponymous debut album by the French disco group that topped the US disco chart |
| 44% | ENERGYUSE | 9 | Activity tracked by the Nest or mySunPower app |
| 43% | DREAM | 5 | "Siamese ___," 1993 album by the Smashing Pumpkins with the lead single "Cherub Rock" |
| 43% | KEPI | 4 | French hat worn by both sides in the American Civil War |
| 43% | OPERA | 5 | "The Phantom of the ___" (novel by French author Gaston Leroux) |
| 41% | HUGUENOT | 8 | Member of the French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries influenced by John Calvin |
| 41% | RAILSPLITTING | 13 | Activity performed by young Abe Lincoln, and a clue to the starred answers |
| 41% | SARTRESARREST | 13 | French writer's apprehension by the police? |
| 40% | ALCHEMY | 7 | Activity associated with the word ladder formed by 1-, 10-, 70- and 72-Across |
| 40% | NOTRE | 5 | French word that becomes its own opposite by changing the first letter to V |