| 100% | IRONORE | 7 | Vale S.A. and the Rio Tinto Group control the vast majority of the world's production of this resource |
| 35% | PERU | 4 | Home to a majority of the world's alpacas |
| 32% | TIPTOPSHAPE | 11 | Exceptional physical health, and a feature of the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 31% | ASIANS | 6 | Majority of the world's population |
| 31% | HGH | 3 | The Crime Control Act of 1990 made distribution and use of this performance enhancer without a legitimate medical reason a felony (abbr.) |
| 31% | OUT | 3 | "I'm writing a poem about constellations, and it's really ___ of this world" |
| 31% | STOOGES | 7 | A very popular slapstick comedy group in the early to late 60's : Consisted of Moe, Shemp, Larry, Curly and Joe |
| 30% | ASIANS | 6 | Majority of the world’s population |
| 30% | WHEAT | 5 | North Dakota and Kansas lead the nation in production of this crop (33% combined) |
| 30% | CENTERSTAGE | 11 | Limelight site, and a hint to the positions of this puzzle's circled names |
| 30% | ARSENIC | 7 | Botallack Mine, now part of a Cornwall and West Devon World Heritage site, averaged 4 tons of this per month in the 1880s |
| 30% | ASIAN | 5 | Like the majority of the world's population |
| 30% | DIMPLES | 7 | Tiny indents on a golf ball that provide control of the ball's trajectory, flight, and spin |
| 30% | FOUNDING | 8 | ___ Fathers, led by George Washington this group of leaders established the U.S. of A |
| 30% | OCASIO | 6 | With 13-Across, the "O" and "C" of the political world's A.O.C. |
| 30% | TWO | 3 | Approximate shape of this puzzle's white squares ... and a synonym of the circled letters |
| 30% | DISAPPEARINGACT | 15 | Part of a magic show, and the key to understanding this puzzle's one-word clues |
| 29% | INDIA | 5 | Home to the majority of the world's wild tigers |
| 29% | SOLAR | 5 | The sun and planets are a part of this system |
| 29% | MARKETOPENING | 13 | What ringing a certain bell signals, and a hint to the first words of this puzzle's movie titles |
| 29% | MONTPELIER | 10 | This US State Capital has the smallest population of them all and doesn't even have a McDonald's |
| 29% | THROW | 5 | Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 29% | DEES | 4 | Clinton Press Secretary Myers and a founding member of the Ramones share four of these amongst them |
| 29% | DEEPTIME | 8 | Term for the full, vast span of the world's history |
| 29% | SOLAR | 5 | The sun and the planets are a part of this system |
| 29% | CAROLINA | 8 | The US has a North and South version of this state |
| 29% | JANE | 4 | I am considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2002 |
| 29% | PAPAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 29% | MAMAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 29% | WAR | 3 | "___ of the Worlds," 2005 movie about a dockworker surviving aliens who abduct humans for resources |