| 100% | TALK | 4 | Trash ___ (you might hear this at a boxing weigh-in) |
| 53% | CRICKET | 7 | On a spring night, you may hear this chirping insect in your garden |
| 53% | CICADA | 6 | On a spring night, you may hear this high-pitched insect in a tree |
| 51% | LILT | 4 | You might hear a children's song in one |
| 51% | ECHO | 4 | Repetition you might hear in a canyon |
| 51% | OWL | 3 | Bird you might hear in a barn |
| 51% | ECHO | 4 | Reflected sound you might hear in a cavern |
| 50% | CHEESEFONDUE | 12 | You might dip 37-Down in this at a dinner party |
| 50% | RUT | 3 | You might get in this at work |
| 50% | TENT | 4 | You might have a stake in this |
| 50% | ECHO | 4 | What you might hear if you yell in a cave |
| 50% | SHH | 3 | What you may hear if you talk at a library |
| 49% | MERCURY | 7 | You might find this planet in a thermometer |
| 49% | ORGANIST | 8 | Musician you might hear at church or at a baseball game |
| 49% | HONOR | 5 | "Objection, your ___!" phrase that you may hear in a courtroom drama |
| 49% | LINE | 4 | You might stand in a long one at Disneyland |
| 48% | CLASS | 5 | "___ dismissed," phrase you might hear at the end of a school day |
| 48% | SCREAM | 6 | Cry you might hear from a petrified victim in a horror movie |
| 48% | QUIET | 5 | "Let's keep it ___," instruction you might hear in a school library |
| 48% | PJS | 3 | You may have a nightcap when you're in these |
| 48% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 48% | INDIAINK | 8 | You might dip a 15-Down in this before writing something |
| 48% | GELT | 4 | You may find it in a pot at a Hanukkah party |
| 47% | CONTEMPT | 8 | A judge may hold you in this |
| 47% | YOU | 3 | "___ can't handle the truth!" phrase that you may hear in a courtroom drama |
| 47% | PARAFFIN | 8 | You might dip a 55-Down in this to make a candle |
| 47% | SWIMMINGPOOL | 12 | You might dip a 25-Down in this to test the water |
| 46% | HOWLS | 5 | What you hear in this conversation: "What a nice night we're having in this dark forest!" "Yes indeed! Ooh, look at that full moon!" |
| 46% | LOO | 3 | You might wait in a queue for one at intermission on the West End |
| 45% | ELBOW | 5 | Throwing this in basketball might earn you a foul |