| 100% | BAE | 3 | Subject of a "one year with this one |
| 59% | NERD | 4 | One with deep knowledge of a subject |
| 57% | KICKSTART | 9 | Get a motorbike going with one of these |
| 56% | ANNUALS | 7 | Plants with a lifespan of less than one year |
| 54% | NOOSE | 5 | A hangman would tie one of these with a rope |
| 54% | SHOULDER | 8 | With a snub, you get a cold one of these |
| 53% | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | 15 | One of a quintet you'll find in this grid, with a bit of deck marking |
| 53% | NESTING | 7 | With 68-Across, each successive one of a set graphically depicted by this puzzle's circles |
| 53% | STAIRCASE | 9 | This puzzle has a secret one, starting with the third letter of 4-Down |
| 52% | ETHICS | 6 | Subject of a Senate committee with an interest in gifts |
| 50% | HURRICANES | 10 | NHL team with a one-eyed logo (in this case, the "eye" is the center of a tropical storm) |
| 50% | MRHYDE | 6 | One subject of a "Strange Case" in literature |
| 49% | TITANIC | 7 | Subject of a Clive Cussler best seller, with "the" |
| 49% | NUT | 3 | Reggie Jackson was one of these in 1966 when he played Class A ball with Modesto |
| 49% | QUARTER | 7 | One fourth of a year |
| 49% | ALIEN | 5 | With 6-Across, subject of an eerie rural legend ... illustrated by connecting nine identically filled squares in this puzzle with a closed line |
| 49% | MILLENNIA | 9 | More than one period of a thousand years |
| 48% | OCEAN | 5 | In June of this year NASA reported that exoplanets with one of these may actually be quite common |
| 48% | HIGH | 4 | With 38-Across, subject of this puzzle |
| 48% | PAULMCCARTNEY | 13 | With 11-Down, subjects of this puzzle |
| 48% | JONAH | 5 | One with a whale of a story? |
| 48% | PIANOTUNER | 10 | One working with a set of keys |
| 48% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 47% | ROAD | 4 | In the city of Ur you could have walked along a paved one of these 6,000 years ago |
| 47% | FELONY | 6 | For a class E one of these you could get up to 5 years and a $250,000 fine |
| 47% | GIRAFFE | 7 | One with a great view of a zoo? |
| 47% | KITTYCAT | 8 | One playing with a ball of yarn, perhaps |
| 47% | MILITIA | 7 | A limit set with one bunch of soldiers |
| 47% | KITTYSPLITTER | 13 | One with joint custody of a pet cat? |
| 47% | PLEATS | 6 | A chef's hat has one hundred of these |