| 100% | HEN | 3 | What a chick's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 88% | DOE | 3 | What a fawn's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 88% | EWE | 3 | What a lamb's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 88% | SOW | 3 | What a piglet's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 88% | MARE | 4 | What a colt's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 46% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 43% | TENT | 4 | What a "big top" is, in the circus |
| 42% | ORLEANS | 7 | The Animals lyric: There is a house in New __ |
| 41% | SEALED | 6 | What the Go-Go's lips are in a 1981 song |
| 41% | MELT | 4 | What a frozen treat will become if left in the sun |
| 41% | ONEBASE | 7 | What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit |
| 41% | PREGNANT | 8 | What a woman is when she has "a bun in the oven" |
| 40% | SEED | 4 | What the stone is in a stone fruit |
| 40% | SEED | 4 | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
| 40% | CRAB | 4 | What the "spider" actually is in a spider roll |
| 40% | LEAD | 4 | What people often call the graphite in a pencil |
| 40% | PRIZE | 5 | What may be on the line in a competition |
| 40% | SOUTHPAW | 8 | Someone who might be called a "cuddy wifter" in the U.K. |
| 40% | METRO | 5 | What the subway is called in Washington, DC and Paris |
| 40% | ORANGE | 6 | What color is the black box in a commercial jet? |
| 39% | LINEONE | 7 | What the first call to a receptionist might come in on |
| 39% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 39% | TYPHOON | 7 | A hurricane is called this in the Western Pacific |
| 39% | APE | 3 | Human's close relative in the animal kingdom |
| 39% | PARROTS | 7 | Apes in the animal kingdom? |
| 39% | ASL | 3 | What might be seen in the corner of a TV screen: Abbr. |
| 39% | THEBOSS | 7 | What James Brown “paid the cost to be,” in a 1973 song |
| 39% | MEN | 3 | What was "raining" in a 1982 megahit by the Weather Girls |
| 38% | PREYS | 5 | ___ on (hunts, in the animal kingdom) |
| 38% | COBB | 4 | What would you call a salad with the ingredients lined up in rows? |