| 100% | SENSORIUM | 9 | Subject of transformation by media technologies, per Marshall McLuhan |
| 32% | LIBEL | 5 | Subject of media law |
| 32% | EVENT | 5 | Subject of media coverage |
| 31% | DEAD | 4 | With 8-Across, subject of a theory that claims that most of the activity on social media is generated by bots |
| 31% | RUSHHOURTRAFFIC | 15 | Subject of frequent reports by helicopter |
| 30% | PROCRASTINATION | 15 | Subject of a definition by Don Marquis |
| 30% | SEINE | 5 | Subject of paintings by Corot and Manet |
| 30% | SHOR | 4 | Subject of "Toots" by Bob Considine, 1969 |
| 30% | CEZANNE | 7 | Subject of an 1874 portrait by Pissarro |
| 30% | MAO | 3 | Subject of 199 silkscreen paintings by Warhol |
| 30% | DREAM | 5 | Subject of a painting by Picasso or Rousseau |
| 30% | ANTIGONE | 8 | Subject of plays by Sophocles, Euripides and Cocteau |
| 30% | BOLIVAR | 7 | Subject of an opera by Darius Milhaud: Simon __ |
| 30% | SOCIALISM | 9 | Subject of an 1880 pamphlet by Friedrich Engels |
| 30% | APP | 3 | Subject of evaluation by a college panel, informally |
| 30% | SEASONS | 7 | Subjects of four famous violin concertos by Vivaldi |
| 30% | BRATZDOLLS | 10 | Subjects of a 2004 lawsuit filed by Mattel |
| 29% | UPI | 3 | Subject of the media history Down to the Wire |
| 29% | ELECTRA | 7 | Subject of plays by Sophocles, Sartre and O'Neill |
| 29% | ANCIENTROME | 11 | Subject of a six-volume history by Edward Gibbon |
| 29% | YETI | 4 | Subject of a 1960 expedition by Sir Edmund Hillary |
| 29% | UFO | 3 | Subject of three videos recently released by the Pentagon |
| 29% | ROMANEMPIRE | 11 | Subject of a classic six-volume work by Edward Gibbon |
| 29% | URIGELLER | 9 | Subject of a 1975 exposé by the magician James Randi |
| 28% | MARILYN | 7 | Subject of a painting by Andy and a song by Elton |
| 28% | SEA | 3 | Frequent subject of paintings by Winslow Homer |
| 28% | BUTTERFLYEFFECT | 15 | Subject of this puzzle, as suggested visually by its central black squares |
| 27% | SEA | 3 | Subject of the trilogy penned by Rachel Carson before she wrote "Silent Spring" |
| 27% | SEINE | 5 | Subject of many paintings made by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1886 |
| 27% | LASTJUDGMENT | 12 | Biblical subject of a fresco painted by 14-Across: 2 wds. |