| 100% | RUNWAY | 6 | Take-off and landing strip |
| 89% | AIRPORT | 7 | Where planes take off and land |
| 89% | RUNWAY | 6 | Where planes take off and land |
| 89% | HELIPORT | 8 | Place to take off and land |
| 88% | AIRPORT | 7 | Place where planes take off and land |
| 88% | RUNWAYS | 7 | Planes take off and land on these |
| 87% | HELIPAD | 7 | Place for choppers to take off and land |
| 70% | STREAK | 6 | Take off and run? |
| 64% | AERIE | 5 | Place of many take-offs and landings |
| 63% | GAZA | 4 | Land strip bordering Israel and Egypt |
| 61% | POLEVAULTER | 11 | One concerned with approach, take-off and landing |
| 58% | GAPYEAR | 7 | Time taken off between high school and college |
| 56% | CHOPPER | 7 | Comes to take off your head, in Oranges and Lemons |
| 56% | COASTLINE | 9 | Boundary strip between land and ocean |
| 56% | TRAY | 4 | Passenger's table that's stowed for take-off and landing |
| 55% | RUNWAY | 6 | Strip of land a plane travels down before take-off |
| 55% | AIRSTRIP | 8 | Patch of land for plane landings and take-offs |
| 55% | VEGOUT | 6 | Take time off and relax (2 wds) |
| 55% | BEHEADS | 7 | Takes off the top, and a hint to 17-, 24-, 47- and 56-Across |
| 54% | AIRDROMES | 9 | Small areas meant for planes to land and take off |
| 53% | HARRIER | 7 | British subsonic military jet plane capable of vertical take-off and landing |
| 51% | HARRIER | 7 | British subsonic military jet plane capable of vertical/short take-off and landing |
| 51% | ISLES | 5 | The British ___ (Great Britain, Ireland, and smaller lands off their coasts) |
| 49% | STREAK | 6 | Take your clothes off and run around to get attention |
| 49% | RUNWAY | 6 | Landing strip |
| 49% | TARMAC | 6 | Landing strip |
| 48% | JARED | 5 | ___ Padalecki and Genevieve Cortese, couple who took their romance on "Supernatural" off-screen |
| 48% | KIRSTEN | 7 | ___ Dunst and Jesse Plemons, couple who took their romance on "Fargo" off-screen |
| 48% | RUNWAYS | 7 | Landing strips |
| 48% | SHED | 4 | Take off |