| 100% | CONTINENT | 9 | The world has 7 expanses of land with this name |
| 38% | ALOU | 4 | Name of the baseball family with a combined 7,228 hits |
| 37% | ROCK | 4 | With 7-Across, the name of one of Led Zeppelin's greatest hits, "___ & ___" |
| 37% | GORDON | 6 | With 32a, name of the British chef whose restaurants have held 16 Michelin stars |
| 37% | KATIE | 5 | Ledecky who has been named World Swimmer of the Year five times |
| 37% | SEAS | 4 | The world has seven of them |
| 35% | YANKEES | 7 | The New York ___, MLB team that has won the most number of World Series championships with 27 wins |
| 35% | BLACK | 5 | With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle |
| 35% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 35% | NORTH | 5 | With 7-Across, top of the world? |
| 35% | STAIRCASE | 9 | This puzzle has a secret one, starting with the third letter of 4-Down |
| 34% | REACH | 5 | Appropriately named Boxer Julius Long, who stands 7 ft 1 in and has a 90 in one of these |
| 34% | IRAQ | 4 | Land with a bit of the Fertile Crescent |
| 33% | PLOTS | 5 | Units of land, with or without the first letter |
| 33% | OMAN | 4 | Land with an exclave on the Strait of Hormuz |
| 33% | DEATH | 5 | The leaving of this world |
| 33% | BOTH | 4 | Have the best of ___ worlds |
| 33% | AMP | 3 | Physicist Andre-Marie (1775-1836), known as the "father of electrodynamics" who had this electricall unit named after him, for short |
| 33% | PLAINS | 6 | Large expanses of flat land with few trees |
| 33% | CHAMBERS | 8 | The heart has 4 of these |
| 32% | AFRO | 4 | The world's largest one has a circumference of 4' 4" |
| 32% | SOLDAS | 6 | Offered with the name of |
| 32% | TIKTOK | 6 | Charli D'Amelio, with over 43 million followers, has been labelled by the NYT as the "reigning queen" of this social media service |
| 32% | NAVAJO | 6 | Arizona county with a national monument of the same name |
| 32% | WINNIPEG | 8 | Provincial capital south of a lake with the same name |
| 32% | EGGCREAMS | 9 | Drinks made with neither of the ingredients in their name |
| 32% | INDEX | 5 | List often scanned with a finger of the same name |
| 32% | CURLY | 5 | Bald member of the Three Stooges with an ironic name |
| 32% | USA | 3 | Land that has the "Statue of Liberty": Abbr. |
| 32% | JABULANI | 8 | The name of the 2010 World Cup ball |