| 100% | SQUAREPEGS | 10 | Things that may not go in 69-Across |
| 49% | STONE | 5 | Thing that may "skip" across water |
| 47% | SECRETRECIPES | 13 | Things that might be kept covered in a kitchen |
| 47% | WESTERNS | 8 | Things that may be shot in stages? |
| 47% | SARCASM | 7 | Humor that might not come across online |
| 47% | MATHEXAMS | 9 | Things that might have kids going off on a tangent? |
| 47% | LAPELS | 6 | Things that might be grabbed by someone in an argument |
| 47% | EARS | 4 | Things that might be muffed in the cold |
| 47% | ALIBI | 5 | Story that might not hold up in court |
| 47% | BUMP | 4 | Things that go ___ in the night |
| 46% | POLTERGEISTS | 12 | Things that go bump in the night |
| 45% | ARCS | 4 | Things that are tossed usually go in them |
| 45% | COIN | 4 | Money that may go in a slot |
| 45% | KALE | 4 | Green that might go in a smoothie |
| 44% | LBOMB | 5 | Slangy thing that may be "dropped" in a serious relationship |
| 44% | EERIE | 5 | Like things that go bump in the night |
| 44% | EMOTIONS | 8 | Things that might be raised in court … with or without the shaded letter |
| 43% | PLATE | 5 | Item that might go under several answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | CAT | 3 | Purring pet that might go after the pet in 31d |
| 42% | DRYICE | 6 | Form of carbon dioxide that may go in a fog machine |
| 42% | KEYS | 4 | *Lock openers, and things that might land in a junk drawer when the locks are lost |
| 42% | UFOS | 4 | Vehicles that may or may not be stored in Area 51: Abbr. |
| 41% | THEDOGS | 7 | Not a good thing to go to, in a phrase |
| 41% | CHOPSUEY | 8 | Chinese-American dish that may not exist in China |
| 41% | UBER | 4 | Ridesharing giant that went public in May of 2019 |
| 40% | DOTCOM | 6 | Business that may have gone boom and then bust in the '90s |
| 40% | YODEL | 5 | Call that might result in a 27-Across |
| 40% | SEX | 3 | Something that might be in an R-rated movie but not a G-rated one |
| 40% | ATOM | 4 | Thing that might decay |
| 39% | NAMENAMES | 9 | Sing in a way that might not be wanted? |