| 100% | REEKS | 5 | Smells like my son was trying to make wolverine attractant with his chemistry set in the basement |
| 30% | LUCY | 4 | "___ in the Sky with Diamonds," 1967 song by The Beatles which was inspired by a drawing that Lennon's son made of his classmate |
| 28% | NEMO | 4 | Disney's clownfish who is lost in the ocean and trying to reunite with his father |
| 26% | MICHAELDAWSON | 13 | The father who is trying to recover his son on "Lost," played by Harold Perrineau: 2 wds |
| 26% | WELCOME | 7 | "___ to the Jungle," 1987 song whose riff by Slash was composed in his mom's basement |
| 26% | IVE | 3 | "___ been trying to get in touch with you" |
| 26% | TURKEYTROT | 10 | Dance to ragtime music in which birdlike movements are made with the shoulders and upper body |
| 25% | LOTION | 6 | "Did you hear about the poet who liked to dip his work in moisturizer? It was poetry in ___" |
| 25% | OSIRIS | 6 | God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!) |
| 24% | PIERCE | 6 | To make a hole in the skin with a sharp object |
| 24% | HOME | 4 | Where a player is trying to get their tokens to in the board game Sorry! |
| 24% | NEXT | 4 | "The eldest son is ___ in line to the throne." |
| 23% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | Making it to the end zone with ball in hand |
| 23% | MADLIB | 6 | Story with blanks to be filled in by the reader |
| 23% | ALL | 3 | "He tried with ___ his might to move the load." |
| 23% | ALL | 3 | "He tried with ___ his might to move the load" |
| 23% | BACKWARDLOOKING | 15 | Give heed! And listen to my tale of the mad tyrant who decreed that all toilets in his realm be installed the wrong way, for he was the … |
| 23% | SKI | 3 | In the movie "A View to a Kill", Bond did this once his snowmobile was blown up |
| 23% | HITTHECEILING | 13 | Got really upset while trying to frighten off whatever was scuffling around in the rafters? |
| 22% | ROB | 3 | Lowe who stars with his sons in the A&E reality series "The Lowe Files" |
| 22% | DEADCHEAT | 9 | Poker player in the Old West after being caught with a card up his sleeve? |
| 22% | EST | 3 | Clock setting in New York that is key to the Times Square Ball Drop: Abbr. |
| 22% | CHILEAN | 7 | Like the Copiapó mine, in which 33 miners were trapped underground in 2010 |
| 22% | EZRA | 4 | ___ Miller, who is set to play The Flash in "Justice League" |
| 22% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which the object is to end with zero points |
| 22% | CAMEO | 5 | Appearance like the ones Alfred Hitchcock made in 40 of his films |
| 22% | YOURHONOR | 9 | Showtime drama about a judge trying to protect his son from mobsters in New Orleans: 2 wds. |
| 22% | CASEY | 5 | Man trying to clarify the spelling of his name in 21-, 25-, 38-, 52- and 57-Across |
| 22% | SENDS | 5 | What Mr. Salieri did with his regards to Tommy Angelo, through Vito, in the video game "Mafia" |
| 22% | PUTSLIPSTICKONAPIG | 18 | Tries to make the unappealing attractive |