| 100% | REVENGE | 7 | The —, Alfred Tennyson poem about Sir Richard Grenville and the 1591 Battle of Flores with the Spanish fleet in the Azores |
| 27% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 26% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of the poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 26% | EBRO | 4 | Battle of the ___, in the Spanish Civil War |
| 24% | AMES | 4 | Surname of brothers with 38 chart hits in the '40s and '50s |
| 23% | TRAFALGAR | 9 | Battle of —, 1805 naval engagement between British and Franco-Spanish fleets off the coast of SW Spain |
| 22% | JELLICOE | 8 | John —, British commander of the Imperial Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 |
| 22% | DRAKE | 5 | Francis —, second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 |
| 22% | MARZO | 5 | The month of March in Spanish and Italian |
| 22% | MELANIA | 7 | “___ and Me,” book sourced in part from surreptitious recordings of conversations with the First Lady (September, 2020) |
| 22% | ATTU | 4 | The Battle of ___, a famed battle between U.S and Japanese forces in Alaska |
| 22% | RAGNAROK | 8 | In Scandinavian mythology, the ultimate battle between the gods and the forces of evil |
| 22% | JULIUS | 6 | With 25-Across, speaker of the quote hidden in 20-, 37- and 53-Across |
| 22% | INKSPOTS | 8 | Vocal group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "The" |
| 22% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 22% | IFMY | 4 | With 36- and 43-Across, second line of the poem |
| 22% | SMACK | 5 | With 33-Down, precisely, as in the middle of 17-, 23-, 51- and 62-Across |
| 22% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 22% | RAGNAROK | 8 | Ultimate battle between the gods and the forces of evil in Scandinavian mythology |
| 22% | HARDY | 5 | Laurel and ___, silent movie duo who acted in "The Battle of the Century" |
| 22% | UNESCO | 6 | Agcy. with the slogan “Building peace in the minds of men and women” |
| 22% | RONETTES | 8 | 1960s pop trio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "the" |
| 22% | JAFFA | 5 | Ancient port in Israel associated with the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus |
| 22% | AWAIST | 6 | With 22- and 126-Across, saying about the difficulty of dieting? |
| 21% | SEXES | 5 | Battle of the ___ (2017 movie about a tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs) |
| 21% | SAHM | 4 | Doug of the Sir Douglas Quintet with the hit "She's About a Mover" |
| 21% | JUBJUBBIRD | 10 | Desperate creature in Lewis Carroll’s poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark |