| 100% | GOOGOL | 6 | The search engine name that should have been spelled this way, maybe because they had no search engine to check at the time? |
| 30% | EMU | 3 | While at the zoo, check out this large flightless bird that is endemic to Australia (3/3) |
| 29% | BORN | 4 | "___ This Way" (Lady Gaga hit that was the 1,000th song to reach No. 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart) |
| 29% | EGOS | 4 | They might need to be checked at the door |
| 28% | JENNIFER | 8 | Name that may have been derived from the juniper plant and common to 13a, 18a, 32a, and 39d |
| 27% | NODOFF | 6 | At midnight when I'm still writing clues for the puzzle that absolutely has to be in Florida by 8:00 am, I have a tendency to do this |
| 27% | MIDNIGHT | 8 | Cinderella should have left the party at this time |
| 27% | EGOS | 4 | People might be asked to check them at the door |
| 27% | GTOS | 4 | Classic cars that were the first to have Ram Air engines |
| 26% | DOG | 3 | Jake the ___, from "Adventure Time" reminds you this New Year that "being bad at something is the first step to being sorta good at it" |
| 26% | MIDNIGHT | 8 | Cinderella had to be back home at this time |
| 26% | TIEATIE | 7 | The way to do this is the #1 how-to search, according to Google |
| 26% | MACAO | 5 | Asian territory that has its own National Olympic Committee but is not allowed to compete at the Olympic Games |
| 26% | ICECREAMPARLOR | 14 | Place to find what the circled letters spell (considering the words that cross at them) |
| 25% | THERED | 6 | "And without those beans ___ have been no stalk to get up to the giants in the first place!" |
| 25% | DUH | 3 | "Oh, that should have been obvious to me" |
| 25% | CHACHA | 6 | Bygone Internet search engine that employed human guides, at 2 cents per answer, to do the searching |
| 25% | LITTLEDIDWEKNOW | 15 | "It was unfamiliar to us at the time, but . . ." |
| 25% | IDS | 3 | They may be checked at the door |
| 25% | EGOS | 4 | They might be checked at the door |
| 25% | IDS | 3 | They might be checked at the door |
| 25% | COATS | 5 | They might be checked at the door |
| 25% | BORN | 4 | "___ This Way" (Lady Gaga hit that was the 1,000th song to reach #1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart) |
| 25% | NESTLES | 7 | Brand name that used to be spelled out in commercials |
| 25% | SEED | 4 | Silene stenophylla produced the oldest - at about 32,000 years - one of these ever to have been successfully grown |
| 25% | IDS | 3 | They may be checked at the border: Abbr. |
| 24% | BAGS | 4 | Items that are checked at the airport |
| 24% | CORONAS | 7 | The "Gran" variety of these can be over 9 inches long, but then you have to slice off the end to use them |
| 24% | WHEAT | 5 | Grain that isn’t used at the restaurant Owamni because it was introduced to the Americas after the arrival of Europeans |
| 24% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |