| 100% | SPUTNIKONE | 10 | What was launched from Site No.1/5, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR in 1957 |
| 32% | URNS | 4 | At the Jiahu Archeological Site in China, discovered in 1962, 32 of these items from the Peiligang culture have been discovered |
| 32% | INN | 3 | What there was no room at, in the Nativity story |
| 31% | REVERSE | 7 | What the numbers 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 are in |
| 28% | TAPIOCA | 7 | What the balls in bubble tea are made from |
| 28% | TINSEL | 6 | What might be hung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 28% | GARLAND | 7 | What might be draped from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 28% | LIGHTS | 6 | What might be strung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 27% | QOM | 3 | The city in Iran, other than Shahrud, where the Shahab-3 ballistic missile can be launched from |
| 27% | TRABANT | 7 | East German car launched in 1957 that was built at Zwickau |
| 27% | ITALIAN | 7 | What the answer at 75-Across is written in |
| 27% | FRENCH | 6 | What the answer at 61-Across is written in |
| 27% | GERMAN | 6 | What the answer at 45-Across is written in |
| 27% | SPANISH | 7 | What the answer at 26-Across is written in |
| 26% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 26% | RAREFORM | 8 | What an athlete may be in when they’re at the top of their game |
| 26% | EZRA | 4 | "In music news, No. 1 on the college charts this summer was 'Better Than ___.' And at No. 2: '___.'" (Norm Macdonald joke) |
| 26% | LORENA | 6 | Ochoa who was the first No. 1 ranked golfer from Mexico |
| 26% | ODEN | 4 | Greg who was the No. 1 pick in the 2007 N.B.A. draft |
| 26% | DONTYOUWANTME | 13 | The Human League song that was a No. 1 hit in 1982 (4 wds.) |
| 26% | PARALLELPARKS | 13 | What 1-, 5-, 10-, 32-, 43- and 53-Down are, in a manner of speaking |
| 26% | ANA | 3 | Tennis player Ivanovic who was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2008 |
| 26% | SHADOW | 6 | What's longer in the morning and evening than it is at noon |
| 25% | BABEL | 5 | Mumford & Sons album that debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 in 2012 |
| 25% | SANIA | 5 | ___ Mirza, retired Indian tennis star who was ranked No. 1 in the world in doubles |
| 25% | NAOMI | 5 | With 37-Across, first Japanese tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in the world |
| 25% | BUILDANAIRPLANE | 15 | You're television's Angus MacGyver. You're being held hostage at the top floor of a construction site in a room with a 17-Across, some 32-Across, and a few 41-Across. What do you do to escape? |
| 25% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 25% | TOURNEYSEED | 11 | No. 1 team at the NCAA's, e.g. |
| 25% | FINALFRONTIER | 13 | With "The," what "space" is, in the intro to 5-/58-Across: 2 wds. |