| 100% | WWI | 3 | The $4.4 billion Britain owed the US in 1934, finally paid off in 2015, was incurred because of this (abbr.) |
| 33% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 32% | FTLB | 4 | This force, used in the US, is the equivalent of about 13.5 million ergs (abbr.) |
| 31% | OSC | 3 | Henry Kerner was confirmed by the US Senate in 2017 to be the executive of this agency (abbr.) |
| 29% | MASS | 4 | Boston is the Capital of this US State in the northeastern U.S. |
| 29% | IJUSTMETYOU | 11 | "Hey, ___, and this is crazy ..." (start of the chorus in 40-Across): 4 wds. |
| 29% | ELANA | 5 | ___ Meyers, who in 2015 was part of the first world champion team from the US in women's bobsled |
| 29% | USN | 3 | JFK was the first president to have served in this branch of the US Armed Forces |
| 29% | BRIDES | 6 | There are more of these in the U.S. in October than any other month, surprisingly |
| 28% | BIBLE | 5 | With 4-Down, much of the Southeast U.S. is in it |
| 28% | LINDA | 5 | Former 4 Non Blondes lead singer Perry who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015 |
| 28% | MCKINLEY | 8 | Was president of the US in 1900 |
| 27% | GUTHRIE | 7 | Woody —, US folk singer, composer of the song This Land is Your Land, who died in 1967 |
| 27% | CTE | 3 | A degenerative brain disease found primarily in athletes and was the focus of the 2015 film "Concussion": Abbr. |
| 27% | AERIE | 5 | The largest one of these was in Florida, weighted an estimated 4,000 lb plus and built by one or more pairs of Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
| 27% | ETAL | 4 | The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case |
| 26% | GIRLONFIRE | 10 | Song from Alicia Keys' fifth studio album which was a commercial hit with over 4 million paid downloads in the U.S.: 3 wds. |
| 26% | EST | 3 | 4.5 billion years, for the age of the earth: Abbr. |
| 26% | WISCONSIN | 9 | The largest city of this US state is Milwaukee |
| 26% | THUNDER | 7 | In Norse mythology, Thor is the god of this |
| 26% | NOV | 3 | When Thanksgiving is, in the US: Abbr. |
| 26% | BEHOLDER | 8 | Beauty is in the eye of this |
| 26% | GALLONS | 7 | In the US, gasoline is sold in these liquid units |
| 26% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 26% | ARES | 4 | The Amazons were the daughter of this god, in myth |
| 26% | PIZZA | 5 | The "Hawaiian" version of this food was invented in Canada |
| 26% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 26% | LEFT | 4 | The translation of this English word is "sinister" in Latin |
| 26% | STRIKES | 7 | In baseball, three of these mean the batter is out |
| 26% | AIDS | 4 | There are over 1.2 million people in the US who are living with this disease, 1 in 8 of them don't know they have it yet |