| 100% | VEVO | 4 | Video music hosting group, formed by two of the "big three" record companies in the US |
| 40% | BAIN | 4 | ___ & Company (one of the Big Three in management consulting) |
| 39% | PIECEOFME | 9 | Song by 32-Across that won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2008, including Video of the Year (3 wds.) |
| 38% | EPSON | 5 | One of three companies in the Seiko Group |
| 35% | MARTIN | 6 | Name shared by two of the stars of "Only Murders in the Building" |
| 35% | YAZOO | 5 | River in Mississippi, US, formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha Rivers |
| 34% | TEXAS | 5 | State with three of the 10 most populous cities in the US |
| 34% | MEAD | 4 | Lake ___, largest artificial lake in the U.S. that looks natural but was formed by the construction of the Hoover Dam |
| 34% | EQUIFAX | 7 | One of the Big Three in credit reports |
| 34% | TRIPLET | 7 | In music, a group of three equal notes played in a time value of two or four |
| 34% | SOMETHINGSFISHY | 15 | "Hmmmmm ..." [as hinted at by the three groups of black squares in the middle of the grid] |
| 34% | SLEDGEHAMMER | 12 | Song that accounted for 9 of the 10 MTV Video Music Awards won by 17-Across in 1987 |
| 34% | NEA | 3 | Biggest teachers' group in the US: Abbr. |
| 33% | PORTLAND | 8 | Biggest city in the US state of Maine |
| 33% | RED | 3 | The other of the two three-letter colors in the Crayola 64 box |
| 33% | SOBER | 5 | 1993 song by the rock band Tool that features stop-motion animation of a humanoid in the official music video |
| 33% | NASHVILLE | 9 | Home of country music in the US |
| 33% | TAN | 3 | One of the two three-letter colors in the Crayola 64 box |
| 32% | CONGALINE | 9 | Group dance popularized in the U.S. by Desi Arnaz |
| 32% | AARP | 4 | Group that publishes the two most-read magazines in the US |
| 32% | RAIN | 4 | "___ On Me," song by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande that won the MTV Video Music Award for Song of the Year in 2020 |
| 32% | MARTHAGRAHAM | 12 | US choreographer named Dancer of the Century by Time magazine in 1998 |
| 32% | LIPO | 4 | Common form of cosmetic surgery in the US, for short |
| 32% | LEON | 4 | US rock group formed in 1999, "Kings of ___" |
| 32% | OURS | 4 | Shared by the two of us |
| 32% | SCTV | 4 | Canadian comedy picked up by NBC in 1981 that recently shot back into the limelight with the launch of the latest two US astronauts |
| 31% | MARINECORPS | 11 | Group whose band is the oldest professional music ensemble in the U.S. |
| 31% | NYU | 3 | Big Apple school attended by many of the characters in "Gossip Girl": Abbr. |
| 31% | MOUNTAIN | 8 | Music by Grieg: In the Hall of the __ King |
| 31% | HAMSTRING | 9 | Group of three muscles in the thigh; often pulled |