| 100% | ASHES | 5 | What a phoenix rises from, with "the" |
| 80% | ASHES | 5 | What a phoenix emerges from, with "the" |
| 77% | ASHES | 5 | What a phoenix rises from |
| 72% | ASHES | 5 | Like a phoenix rising from the ___ |
| 71% | REBORN | 6 | Like a phoenix rising from the ashes |
| 70% | ASHES | 5 | What a phoenix may rise from |
| 66% | ASHES | 5 | What the phoenix rises from |
| 64% | ASHES | 5 | What the legendary phoenix rises from |
| 58% | ASHES | 5 | What a phoenix emerges from |
| 58% | QUARTERBACK | 11 | What one gets from the hot dog vendor when paying with a $5 bill? |
| 57% | ASHES | 5 | What a phoenix is reborn from |
| 57% | ASHES | 5 | "Rise like a phoenix from the ___" |
| 54% | BOW | 3 | What a cellist plays the cello with |
| 53% | CUE | 3 | What a billiards player strikes the ball with |
| 53% | FOURTEEN | 8 | With 61-Across, what President Wilson proposed for a lasting peace ... or what's missing from the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | ASHES | 5 | From where the phoenix rises |
| 51% | TUNE | 4 | What a guitarist would do with the instrument before playing |
| 51% | PLAYS | 5 | What a kid does at the park with friends, often |
| 50% | IDO | 3 | What a witness with a hand on the Bible says: 2 wds. |
| 50% | ASH | 3 | What drops from the end of a cigarette |
| 50% | BERG | 4 | What the Titanic had a disastrous encounter with |
| 50% | TALLEST | 7 | Rising furthest from the ground, as a sequoia |
| 49% | BONAMI | 6 | Cleanser with the logo of a chick emerging from an egg |
| 49% | SHRILL | 6 | Lindy West book with the subtitle Notes From a Loud Woman |
| 49% | CHAFF | 5 | What to separate the wheat from, in a saying |
| 49% | KOPJE | 5 | A small hill rising up from the African veld |
| 49% | BEARS | 5 | The Three ___, trio from a fairy tale with Goldilocks |
| 49% | TONG | 4 | Grab from the grill with a gripper |
| 49% | HOST | 4 | What a communion wafer represents, with "the" |
| 49% | EJECT | 5 | What a fighter pilot might do from the cockpit if the plane is hit |