| 100% | IDEE | 4 | What will the French think of next? |
| 54% | THEY | 4 | "What will __ think of next?" |
| 54% | THEY | 4 | ''What will __ think of next?'' |
| 51% | THEY | 4 | "What will ___ think of next?" |
| 51% | ALSACE | 6 | The French departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin will merge on January 1 next year to become the European Collectivity of ___ |
| 51% | IDEE | 4 | What the French think? |
| 51% | IDEES | 5 | What the French think? |
| 50% | KOAN | 4 | What is the sound of one hand clapping?, say |
| 50% | ALEXA | 5 | "___, what is the meaning of life?" (modern query) |
| 47% | CENTIMES | 8 | The French franc was divided into 100 of them |
| 47% | ARTICLE | 7 | What is found at the heart of this clue |
| 47% | EXECUTION | 9 | Guillotining was the favored French method of __ |
| 47% | THIRTEEN | 8 | Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of what number? |
| 47% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 47% | PTS | 3 | What is tallied at the end of a competition: Abbr. |
| 46% | SHOOTING | 8 | It may be the basis of wishful thinking |
| 46% | METALS | 6 | What the majority of elements are |
| 46% | UVEA | 4 | What the iris is part of |
| 46% | ROME | 4 | What the 5-Across is bishop of |
| 46% | IRON | 4 | What the Eiffel Tower is made of |
| 46% | KNOWABILITY | 11 | The realm of what can be sensed |
| 46% | EAU | 3 | What the 22 Across is made of |
| 46% | USDA | 4 | What the Forest Service is part of |
| 45% | POTOFGOLD | 9 | What is said to be found at the end of a rainbow |
| 45% | HANDS | 5 | What are needed to play the last-word theme of the puzzle |
| 45% | BLEU | 4 | How the French would spell the color of the sky |
| 45% | WALDO | 5 | Odlaw is the archnemesis of what children's book character? |
| 45% | STRIKEZONE | 10 | What half of a battery is next to |
| 45% | ALIENVISITS | 11 | What some think 43-Across are signs of |
| 45% | EEL | 3 | What Aristotle thought was born of ''earth worms'' |