| 100% | PAPARAZZI | 9 | Term that comes from the name of a news photographer in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” |
| 41% | ATARI | 5 | Company whose name comes from a term in the game of Go |
| 40% | SASHAY | 6 | Verb that comes from a corruption of the ballet term "chassé" |
| 38% | KILLERS | 7 | The ___, "Mr. Brightside" band that derived its name from a fictitious band seen in New Order's "Crystal" music video |
| 37% | CINNAMON | 8 | Spice that comes from the bark of a tree |
| 36% | ASPEN | 5 | Tree that's the name of a city in Colorado |
| 36% | OOLONG | 6 | The name of a kind of tea that means "black dragon" in Chinese |
| 36% | ATARI | 5 | Company whose name comes from a term in the game Go |
| 36% | RUMP | 4 | Beef cut that comes from the rear portion of a cow |
| 36% | EPHESIANS | 9 | Group in the name of a New Testament epistle |
| 36% | REM | 3 | Band that took its name from a stage of sleep Michael Stipe found in the dictionary |
| 35% | RONPAUL | 7 | Name in the news that's an anagram of OUR PLAN |
| 35% | DORIS | 5 | Name of a weather bomb that hit the UK in 2017 |
| 35% | BUTT | 4 | Pork ___ (cut that comes from the shoulder of a pig) |
| 35% | DENIM | 5 | Material with a name that comes from a shortening of the French for "serge from Nîmes" |
| 35% | KIWI | 4 | Name of a fruit and the informal term for a New Zealander |
| 34% | SUGARPLUM | 9 | Christmas treat that's also the name of a fairy in "The Nutcracker" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | ORAN | 4 | Port name that comes from the Berber for "place of lions" |
| 33% | PERSEIDS | 8 | Name of a major 14-Across that peaks early in the week of August 12, 2019 |
| 33% | SEARS | 5 | Appliance giant that was once the name of a tower in Chicago |
| 33% | TANNOY | 6 | Colloquial term for a public address system taken from the name of a firm set up by Guy Fountain in 1926 |
| 33% | WISEACRE | 8 | Word that comes from the Dutch for "soothsayer" and, despite appearances, has no relation to a unit of measurement |
| 33% | EGG | 3 | ___ cream, misleading name of a drink that contains neither of the ingredients in its name |
| 33% | NOH | 3 | Form of classical dance drama whose name comes from the word for "skill", that's been continuously performed in Japan since the 14th century |
| 33% | BOSSA | 5 | Start of the name of a dance that's Portuguese for "new trend" |
| 33% | TARS | 4 | The name of a fictional computer in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" |
| 32% | HAL | 3 | Name that's one of the halves of a word in this clue |
| 32% | TRADE | 5 | The "T" of WTUL that coordinated a strike by 20,000 women in 1909 in New York's garment district |
| 32% | SPA | 3 | Word derived from the name of a Belgian town |