| 100% | AVIATION | 8 | The flying of aircraft; the A in the UN's ICAO |
| 56% | BLACK | 5 | The color of a raven flying in the night |
| 51% | COPILOT | 7 | The second officer in charge of flying an aircraft |
| 51% | DEFIED | 6 | Flew completely in the face of, in a way |
| 50% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 50% | KITE | 4 | Flier that might be of a variety in the shaded squares |
| 49% | BOAR | 4 | Object of a hunt in "Lord of the Flies" |
| 48% | TARS | 4 | The name of a fictional computer in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" |
| 48% | EGO | 3 | What Ralph represents in a Freudian analysis of "Lord of the Flies" |
| 48% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 47% | JANE | 4 | I am considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2002 |
| 47% | WASHATERIA | 10 | In a ___, there's lots of ___ in the machinery |
| 46% | TARTS | 5 | The Queen of Hearts's output, in a nursery rhyme |
| 46% | TUE | 3 | The first of two T's, in a familiar sequence |
| 46% | DEMURE | 6 | Like a lot of the attire in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 46% | CHRYSALIS | 9 | The stage of a caterpillar while in the cocoon |
| 46% | GREEN | 5 | The color of a frog hopping in the grass |
| 46% | DDT | 3 | Target of a 1972 ban in the U.S. |
| 46% | TRAGEDY | 7 | In theater, it's the opposite of a comedy |
| 46% | FAULTLINE | 9 | Sign of a fracture in the Earth’s crust |
| 46% | AMERICANS | 9 | One of the A's in ADA |
| 46% | ASK | 3 | One of the A's in AMA |
| 45% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of years in a periodical cicada’s life cycle |
| 45% | BABAR | 5 | King of the elephants in a children's book series |
| 45% | ACRE | 4 | One of the 40 in a farmer's "back 40" |
| 45% | DIOC | 4 | Part of the area in a bishop's jurisdiction, briefly |
| 45% | ASSN | 4 | One of the a's in Nascar: Abbr. |
| 45% | AMER | 4 | One of the A's in AAA: Abbr. |
| 45% | NAVEL | 5 | A rounded depression in the centre of a person's belly |
| 45% | OCCUPANCY | 9 | The percentage of a hotel's rooms that are in use |