| 100% | WET | 3 | What standing in the rain will make you |
| 46% | COBB | 4 | What would you call a salad with the ingredients lined up in rows? |
| 46% | TAPIOCA | 7 | What the balls in bubble tea are made from |
| 46% | SINGIN | 6 | What Gene Kelly was doin' in the rain |
| 46% | THEE | 4 | What you might be in the Bible? |
| 45% | ILEFT | 5 | "___ My Sugar Standing in the Rain" (1920s hit) |
| 44% | CANOPENERS | 10 | "What are you in for?" and the like? |
| 43% | ONEBASE | 7 | What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit |
| 42% | MEN | 3 | What was "raining" in a 1982 megahit by the Weather Girls |
| 42% | ODOR | 4 | What you hope will come out in the wash |
| 42% | TIN | 3 | What the metal man in Oz was made of |
| 42% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 42% | SAND | 4 | What castles on the beach are made of |
| 42% | GOTWET | 6 | Stood out in the rain, say |
| 41% | SEANHUGHES | 10 | Stand-up comedian and actor, author of novels It's What He Would've Wanted and The Detainees, who died in 2017 |
| 41% | BOX | 3 | Container (and, in a way, what you will find outlined by this year's clues related to the mega-meta) |
| 41% | GETWET | 6 | Stand out in the rain (2 wds.) |
| 41% | BED | 3 | One might be made in the morning |
| 41% | WORD | 4 | What you make in Scrabble |
| 41% | TIN | 3 | What the woodman in "The Wizard of Oz" is made out of |
| 41% | SANDSTONE | 9 | What the arches in Arches National Park are made of |
| 40% | ROUGE | 5 | It'll make you red in the face |
| 40% | ACNE | 4 | It might make you red in the face |
| 40% | ACNE | 4 | This might make you red in the face |
| 40% | ONIONS | 6 | They may make you cry in the kitchen |
| 40% | IRE | 3 | It might make you red in the face |
| 40% | FAKETAN | 7 | Shade that might be made in the shade? |
| 40% | ONIONORGANIZERS | 15 | Labor bigwigs who will help you form chapters and make you cry in the process? |
| 40% | PAN | 3 | What you make an omelet in |
| 40% | KNOT | 4 | What you make in a shoelace |