| 100% | RIOTS | 5 | Violent public protests usually brought on by controversy and civil unrest (plural) |
| 27% | RIOT | 4 | Violent public protest |
| 25% | RIOTS | 5 | Violent public unrests |
| 24% | TEARS | 5 | They might be brought on by onions |
| 24% | MOUNTAINANGER | 13 | Furious feeling brought on by high elevations? |
| 24% | SUNSTROKE | 9 | Illness brought on by excessive heat exposure |
| 24% | RIOT | 4 | Civil unrest caused by a crowd |
| 23% | FOMO | 4 | Anxiety sometimes brought on by Instagram Stories, for short |
| 23% | STRAIN | 6 | Injury brought on by stretching a tendon or muscle |
| 22% | FREEDOMRIDES | 12 | Bus trips taken by John Lewis (1940-2020) and other civil rights activists in 1961 to protest segregation: 2 wds. |
| 22% | LARGE | 5 | By and __; on the whole |
| 22% | MIDLIFECRISIS | 13 | *Period of anxiety that may be brought on by facing one's mortality |
| 22% | AMAS | 4 | Grammy alternatives voted on by the public, for short |
| 21% | LEAN | 4 | "___ On" (song by Major Lazer and DJ Snake) |
| 20% | COURTYARD | 9 | Patio, open-air and usually enclosed by walls |
| 20% | JAMESBALDVVIN | 13 | Novelist and civil rights activist who wrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" |
| 20% | PETS | 4 | US Public Law 109-308, signed by President George W. Bush on October 6, 2006, that concerned service and other animals (abbr.) |
| 20% | CORE | 4 | Civil rights org. HQed in NYC and headed by Roy Innis |
| 20% | COMMUNICATIONS | 14 | Course on journalism and media, attended by elevator manufacturers |
| 19% | DATED | 5 | Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past |
| 19% | ANN | 3 | Nurse Perkins played by Rashida Jones on "Parks and Recreation" |
| 19% | ARS | 3 | “___ Amatoria” (three-book series by Ovid on love and seduction) |
| 19% | OPEN | 4 | "___ Source," podcast on arts and culture hosted by Christopher Lydon |
| 19% | COSMO | 5 | Cocktail favored by Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City" |
| 19% | ACNES | 5 | Complaints that might be brought on by clogged follicles but the majority of the time, it's your genes |
| 19% | OCTOPI | 6 | Zoological plural frowned on by sticklers |
| 19% | TEAMUSA | 7 | Olympic delegation cheered on by the chant found in 16-, 22-, 49-, and 60-Across |
| 19% | GRANDMAL | 8 | Form of epilepsy characterised by loss of consciousness and violent convulsions |
| 19% | RALLY | 5 | Demonstration by a group of people, usually on a political issue |
| 19% | KNIGHT | 6 | Chess piece usually represented by a horse's head and neck |