| 100% | SYL | 3 | Unit of pronunciation, for short (23a has 3 and 47a has 2) |
| 49% | SYLL | 4 | Unit of pronunciation, for short |
| 49% | SYL | 3 | Unit of pronunciation, for short |
| 42% | RBIS | 4 | Hank Aaron had 2,297 of them, for short |
| 41% | JLO | 3 | Nickname of the singer known for "All I Have" and "On the Floor": 2 wds. |
| 39% | SEC | 3 | The trig. function that has a value of 2 for a 60 degree angle, for short |
| 39% | MEG | 3 | Unit of RAM, for short |
| 39% | RPM | 3 | Unit of frequency, for short |
| 39% | YRS | 3 | Unit of age, for short |
| 39% | KILO | 4 | Unit of weight, for short |
| 39% | KILO | 4 | Unit of mass, for short |
| 39% | AMP | 3 | Unit of current, for short |
| 39% | AMPS | 4 | Units of current, for short |
| 39% | MEGS | 4 | Units of RAM, for short |
| 39% | RANDB | 5 | Genre of music that is short for "rhythm and blues": 3 wds. |
| 38% | MON | 3 | First day of the week, for short (start to 15a, 30a, 41a, 42a, 47a, 19d, and 22d) |
| 38% | NYC | 3 | City that Eric Adams has called "the Istanbul of America," "the Islamabad of America," and "the Kyiv of America," for short |
| 37% | WISEACRE | 8 | Word that comes from the Dutch for "soothsayer" and, despite appearances, has no relation to a unit of measurement |
| 37% | PAUL | 4 | ___ Newman, actor who has 2 Oscar nominations for the same character, in "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money" |
| 37% | SYLLABLE | 8 | Unit of pronunciation that has one vowel sound |
| 37% | DALTON | 6 | Unit of measurement for atomic and molecular mass |
| 37% | KILO | 4 | Metric unit of mass, for short |
| 37% | KILO | 4 | Metric unit of weight, for short |
| 37% | KILOS | 5 | Metric units of mass, for short |
| 37% | KGS | 3 | Metric units of weight, for short |
| 37% | ODON | 4 | Have too much of, for short |
| 36% | AMP | 3 | Physicist Andre-Marie (1775-1836), known as the "father of electrodynamics" who had this electricall unit named after him, for short |
| 36% | AMP | 3 | Unit of electric current, for short |
| 36% | AMP | 3 | Unit of electrical current, for short |
| 36% | SEC | 3 | Unit of a minute, for short |