| 100% | BONDS | 5 | Treasury items that in 2019 the Trump Administration considered selling with a maturity of 50 years |
| 35% | TEA | 3 | Item that Kenya exported to the tune of over a billion pounds in 2019 |
| 31% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 30% | TEE | 3 | Item that might be knocked out of the ground with a golf shot |
| 29% | CRADLE | 6 | Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme “Rock-a-Bye Baby” |
| 29% | POC | 3 | Abbreviation with a variant preceded by “BI” that gained popularity in the summer of 2020 |
| 29% | TAHOE | 5 | California freshwater lake with a name that translates to "edge of the lake" in Washoe |
| 29% | PRIME | 5 | The best years of your life, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 29% | EDINBURGH | 9 | A town in Indiana that shares its name with the capital of Scotland |
| 28% | ASHE | 4 | ___ Stadium, venue with a cushioned acrylic surface that is the largest of its type in the world |
| 28% | AUGMENTED | 9 | With 50-Across, category of games that provide a layer on top of the physical world |
| 28% | DUNLIN | 6 | Small wading bird with a slightly down-curved bill that breeds in the uplands of Scotland, Wales and England |
| 28% | PIMP | 4 | 50 Cent hit with an instrumental cover that plays a prominent role in “Anatomy of a Fall” |
| 28% | MARIANORIVERA | 13 | Yankees relief pitcher with a record 652 career saves inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019 (2 wds.) |
| 27% | PERSEIDS | 8 | Name of a major 14-Across that peaks early in the week of August 12, 2019 |
| 27% | OLDTOWNROAD | 11 | Lil Nas X hit with a record-setting 143 million US streams in the week of April 20, 2019: 3 wds. |
| 27% | NEEDLE | 6 | Item prominently displayed in NYC that actually came from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III, 1400 years before Cleopatra |
| 27% | BADGUY | 6 | 2019 song by Billie Eilish that won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 27% | THEPINK | 7 | With 50-Across, comedy film series in which Peter Sellers originated the role of a bumbling detective: 2 wds. |
| 27% | NICOBAR | 7 | — Islands, chain in the Indian Ocean that form, with the Andaman Islands, a Union Territory of India |
| 27% | SIDEWALKCHALK | 13 | 2020 addition to the Toy Hall of Fame that may be sold in a bucket (2 wds.) |
| 27% | CMA | 3 | Nashville org. that hasn’t named a female Entertainer of the Year since Taylor Swift, in 2011 |
| 27% | ABA | 3 | Org. with a national event that has the benefit of involving no trump but where you risk of getting slammed for attending |
| 27% | CERES | 5 | Body in our solar system that was considered a planet in the first half of the 19th century |
| 27% | ROAR | 4 | Hit song by Katy Perry that was nominated for a Grammy for Song of the Year in 2014 |
| 27% | FIREWORK | 8 | Hit song by Katy Perry that was nominated for a Grammy for Record of the Year in 2012 |
| 27% | DANCEMONKEY | 11 | 2019 hit for Tones and I with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 27% | RING | 4 | Boxer's arena, or a New Year's tradition that announces the beginning of the New Year (with "in") |
| 26% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 26% | LUKADONCIC | 10 | 2019 NBA Rookie of the Year who was named to the NBA All-Star team three years in a row (2 wds.) |