| 100% | TESTSFOR | 8 | Tries to detect, as a substance in the body |
| 52% | SUTURE | 6 | Stitch to sew up a cut in the body |
| 52% | ENDOSCOPY | 9 | Procedure to look inside a cavity in the body |
| 51% | TRACT | 5 | A passage in the body, as the digestive or respiratory |
| 50% | LEAFS | 5 | As she ___ through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the handwriting |
| 50% | APPLIESTO | 9 | Tries to get in, as a school |
| 50% | BOWL | 4 | Try to avoid the gutter, in a way |
| 49% | BLOT | 4 | Try to contain, in a way, as a spill |
| 49% | HIDE | 4 | Try to avoid the seeker, in a children's game |
| 49% | ALLERGY | 7 | Abnormal reaction of the body to a substance |
| 47% | TRACT | 5 | A major passage in the body, as respiratory |
| 47% | AMENDED | 7 | Made changes to, as a bill in the House of Representatives |
| 46% | STARRED | 7 | To have appeared as the lead in a movie or play |
| 46% | SERVE | 5 | Bring to the table, as food in a restaurant |
| 45% | DUN | 3 | ___ Laoghaire, originally constructed as a port to serve Dublin in the early 19th century |
| 45% | KNEE | 4 | Body part touched to the ground in a modern form of protest |
| 45% | FLORA | 5 | All the plants in a region, as opposed to "fauna" |
| 45% | CONSEQUENTIALLY | 15 | As a result, and a hint to a three-letter chunk in the five long Down answers |
| 44% | HEART | 5 | "Places in the ___," 1984 Oscar-winning film about a group trying to save a cotton farm |
| 44% | LEASALONGA | 10 | As Kim in “Miss Saigon,” she became the first Asian woman to win a Tony |
| 43% | MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE | 17 | Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as |
| 43% | NEED | 4 | Megaproject proposed as a solution to rising ocean levels in the English Channel and the North Sea (abbr.) |
| 43% | STUBBED | 7 | Like an injured toe, often as a result of wandering to the washroom at three in the morning |
| 43% | WALUIGI | 7 | Purple-clad character who serves as a foil to Mario's brother in the "Super Mario Bros." series |
| 43% | SNARLAT | 7 | Try to intimidate as a dog might |
| 43% | REGULARS | 8 | Main actors in a continuing series, as opposed to the show's guest stars |
| 43% | HAHA | 4 | Wall or fence set in a ditch so as not to interrupt the landscape |
| 43% | CANDLE | 6 | "___ in the Wind 1997," charity single by Elton John that was rewritten as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 42% | ENAMEL | 6 | Hardest substance in the human body |
| 42% | TOOTHENAMEL | 11 | Hardest substance in the human body |