| 100% | ALUMINUM | 8 | What holds 16 Down in cans |
| 47% | ROOTSUP | 7 | Digs out, or what can be found in four long Down answers? |
| 45% | HEADSTART | 9 | Advantage in a race, and what can be found in 16-, 33-, or 40-Across |
| 45% | HIDDENGEMS | 10 | Relatively unknown quality items ... and what can be found in 16-, 26- and 42-Across |
| 45% | GRAVITY | 7 | What holds us down |
| 44% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 43% | ALLTIMERECORDS | 14 | What 64-Across holds in the three legs of 46-Down |
| 42% | ADOZENROSES | 11 | What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style |
| 42% | KNOT | 4 | What holds a tie in place |
| 41% | AROAR | 5 | "Could you hold it down to ___ in here?" |
| 41% | CARGO | 5 | What's held in holds |
| 41% | EIDER | 5 | What can get you down? |
| 41% | PINT | 4 | What some glasses can hold |
| 41% | PINCH | 5 | What two fingers can hold |
| 41% | SPURTS | 6 | What inspiration can come in |
| 41% | MAN | 3 | Hold down, in a way |
| 40% | HAND | 4 | What's held in hold'em |
| 40% | FATE | 4 | What you can't 46 Down |
| 40% | DENY | 4 | What "nobody can" do, in song |
| 40% | ESCROW | 6 | What money can be kept in |
| 40% | ALIE | 4 | What you could get caught in |
| 40% | NOT | 3 | What "!" can mean in computer programming |
| 40% | OCD | 3 | What psychotherapy can treat, in brief |
| 40% | RESERVE | 7 | What things may be held in |
| 39% | ADAMSAPPLE | 10 | What can't hold still during lectures? |
| 39% | HURT | 4 | What words can do, in an admonishment |
| 39% | OUT | 3 | What a pro can make in baseball |
| 39% | SKI | 3 | What you can do indoors in Dubai |
| 39% | RENT | 4 | What's held back in some strikes |
| 39% | WATERFALLS | 10 | What the circles in this puzzle hold |