| 100% | FLYING | 6 | The 'f' in UFO, old term for a mysterious object |
| 50% | MINER | 5 | Term for a worker in the cryptocurrency business |
| 49% | POLONECK | 8 | Another term for a turtleneck, popular in the UK |
| 48% | INFLATION | 9 | Economic term for a decline in the value of money |
| 48% | CAROM | 5 | American term for a cannon in the game of pool |
| 48% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary but should be |
| 47% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary, but maybe should be |
| 47% | SODA | 4 | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| 47% | POP | 3 | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| 46% | BIOTA | 5 | Collective term for the lifeforms in a distinct region |
| 46% | OUT | 3 | ___ of Bounds, term for a player who touches any boundary line in the NFL |
| 46% | KINETIC | 7 | Common term for the energy of a body in motion |
| 45% | HARD | 4 | ___ pass, term for a firm rejection that was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2021 |
| 45% | RIBAND | 6 | Old term for a ribbon |
| 44% | NEEDLEDROP | 10 | Turntable-inspired term for the use of a familiar song in a film |
| 44% | SOPRANINO | 9 | Term for a musical instrument such as a recorder or saxophone with the highest pitch of all those in its family |
| 42% | TANNOY | 6 | Colloquial term for a public address system taken from the name of a firm set up by Guy Fountain in 1926 |
| 42% | SCRIVENER | 9 | Old term for a clerk, à la Melville's Bartleby |
| 42% | LEA | 3 | Term derived from the Old High German for "clearing" (it's hidden in "clearing," too) |
| 42% | STALEMATE | 9 | Term for a draw in chess |
| 42% | MALAPHOR | 8 | Informal term for a sentence that mixes two idioms or cliches, like the ones found in 20a, 42a, 58a, 24d, and 25d |
| 42% | METROSEXUAL | 11 | *Term for a well-heeled urban male coined in the mid-'90s |
| 42% | EYE | 3 | Term for a hole in Swiss cheese |
| 42% | UNPERSON | 8 | Term for a censored dissident in "1984" |
| 41% | WHITEHOPE | 9 | Term for heavyweight boxers thought to have a chance of ending Jack Johnson's dominance of the division in the 1910s |
| 41% | YBLENT | 6 | Old term for the past participle of blend |
| 41% | PEARL | 5 | Term for a tapioca ball in boba tea |
| 41% | LARBOARD | 8 | Old nautical term for port, the left side of a ship when facing the bow |
| 41% | FRI | 3 | The F in "TGIF," for short |
| 41% | BROADWAY | 8 | Term for a nonsuited ace high straight in poker |