| 100% | PUPPETRY | 8 | Type of art performed by Jim Henson and Bill Baird |
| 40% | KERMIT | 6 | Green muppet created and performed by Jim Henson |
| 37% | ORAL | 4 | Type of surgery performed by dentists |
| 36% | RAP | 3 | Type of music performed by 4-Down |
| 33% | TENOR | 5 | Type of sax played by Bill Clinton |
| 33% | FLAMENCO | 8 | Type of Spanish guitar music accompanied by dancing and singing |
| 33% | BASS | 4 | Type of guitar played by Flea and Sting |
| 33% | ODE | 3 | Type of poem written by Keats and Shelley |
| 33% | ODES | 4 | Type of poems written by Keats and Shelley |
| 32% | SOY | 3 | Type of sauce made by Kikkoman and La Choy |
| 32% | IPA | 3 | Type of beer made by Stone and Lagunitas: Abbr. |
| 32% | NOH | 3 | Type of drama developed by Kan'ami and Zeami |
| 32% | IPA | 3 | Type of beer made by Dogfish Head and Lagunitas: Abbr. |
| 32% | IPA | 3 | Type of beer made by Ballast Point and Lagunitas: Abbr. |
| 31% | TAP | 3 | Variety of dance performed by Savion Glover and Fred Astaire |
| 31% | PRINTS | 6 | Works of art made by a raised surface and inking |
| 30% | OOLONG | 6 | Type of traditional tea from China that is made by sun-drying and oxidizing tea leaves |
| 30% | PUER | 4 | Type of fermented tea from China that is made by drying, rolling, and fermenting black tea |
| 30% | ZEN | 3 | "___ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," book by Robert M. Pirsig |
| 30% | FRUIT | 5 | Type of food whose outsides are suggested by the outsides of 17-, 29-, 43- and 55-Across |
| 29% | PEA | 3 | Type of galaxy appearing greenish and of small size discovered by citizen scientists on the crowdsourced Galaxy Zoo project |
| 28% | TANGO | 5 | Dance performed by Al Pacino and Gabrielle Anwar in "Scent of a Woman" |
| 28% | DORY | 4 | Type of boat shown in the painting "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer, currently in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts |
| 28% | MAGICAL | 7 | Type of art realism closely linked with surrealism |
| 28% | ABSTRACT | 8 | Type of art not based on concrete existence |
| 28% | DAVID | 5 | "___ and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants," non-fiction book by Malcolm Gladwell |
| 27% | SCULPTURE | 9 | Type of art for which Rodin was most famous |
| 27% | BREAKFAST | 9 | Type of lodging, bed and __ |
| 27% | ERNIE | 5 | Children's character originally voiced by Jim Henson |
| 27% | TOWN | 4 | "Another ___, Another Train," 1973 song by ABBA that was performed in the style of Simon and Garfunkel |