| 100% | TENT | 4 | What a "big top" is, in the circus |
| 65% | TENT | 4 | What a circus's "big top" is |
| 61% | TENTS | 5 | What circus big tops are |
| 59% | SOPPYRING | 9 | Wet circus area after a leak in the big top? |
| 59% | BACKYARD | 8 | In a circus, the area behind the big top |
| 58% | HEN | 3 | What a chick's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 58% | DOE | 3 | What a fawn's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 58% | EWE | 3 | What a lamb's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 58% | SOW | 3 | What a piglet's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 58% | MARE | 4 | What a colt's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 58% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 58% | PREGNANT | 8 | What a woman is when she has "a bun in the oven" |
| 57% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 57% | MELT | 4 | What a frozen treat will become if left in the sun |
| 56% | ORANGE | 6 | What color is the black box in a commercial jet? |
| 55% | SUNROOF | 7 | The top of a car that can be opened in summer |
| 55% | MEN | 3 | What was "raining" in a 1982 megahit by the Weather Girls |
| 55% | CASTLES | 7 | "___ in the Air," 1971 song by Don McLean that was a Billboard Top 40 hit |
| 54% | SEED | 4 | What the stone is in a stone fruit |
| 54% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 54% | BUCKET | 6 | A drop in the __, a little bit of what is needed |
| 54% | ASIA | 4 | Smallest name but is the biggest in size as a continent |
| 54% | PRIZE | 5 | What may be on the line in a competition |
| 53% | MPH | 3 | What the speed of a tennis serve or baseball pitch is measured in: Abbr. |
| 53% | EARTH | 5 | What is the only planet in our solar system not named for a deity? |
| 53% | BUBBLESUP | 9 | Rises to the top, or what can be found in this puzzle? |
| 53% | RAREFORM | 8 | What an athlete may be in when they’re at the top of their game |
| 53% | NINETOFIVEJOBS | 14 | Predictable work ... and, in a way, what the other three longest answers are? |
| 52% | SEED | 4 | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
| 52% | ONEBASE | 7 | What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit |