| 100% | ARAL | 4 | With 45-Across, what was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water |
| 51% | CASPIAN | 7 | — Sea, largest inland body of water in the world |
| 51% | ARALSEA | 7 | World's fourth-largest inland body of water |
| 49% | ARAL | 4 | Name of what was once the world's second-largest saltwater lake |
| 48% | ARAL | 4 | ___ Sea, shrinking body of water that was once the world's third-largest lake |
| 47% | CASPIANSEA | 10 | World's largest inland body of water |
| 47% | CASPIAN | 7 | World's largest inland body of water: __ Sea |
| 46% | ARAL | 4 | Area that was once the world's fourth largest lake and is now partly the Aralkum Desert |
| 45% | ARALSEA | 7 | It was once the world's fourth-largest lake |
| 44% | ROSSSEA | 7 | Body of water that's home to the world's largest marine reserve |
| 44% | CASPIAN | 7 | ___ Sea (world’s largest inland body of water) |
| 41% | LAKEVAN | 7 | Turkey's largest inland body of water |
| 40% | LAKE | 4 | Large inland body of water |
| 37% | ARAL | 4 | “Sea” that was once the fourth-largest lake in the world |
| 37% | WINSTAR | 7 | ___ World Casino is the largest casino in America with a total of 1495 rooms |
| 36% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 36% | ASPEN | 5 | The world's largest organism by mass, known as Pando, is this type of tree |
| 35% | TRADE | 5 | With 38-Across, what the four key parts of this puzzle are |
| 35% | MINCE | 5 | With 45-Across, not be direct ... or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do? |
| 35% | CARLOS | 6 | With 76-Across, Mexican business magnate who was once the world's richest person |
| 35% | WATER | 5 | With 68-Across, what the groups of circled letters are famous examples of |
| 35% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| 35% | LAKEGARDA | 9 | Largest body of water in the Alps |
| 34% | SEARS | 5 | Once the world's largest retailer |
| 34% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 34% | WOOWOOWOO | 9 | With 80 Across, what it's like after a meeting of the Curly Fan Club? |
| 34% | AKRON | 5 | Ohio city that was once the Rubber Capital of the World |
| 34% | OVERSTATEMENT | 13 | What "Home of the world's best pizza!" most likely is |
| 34% | OCEANS | 6 | Large bodies of water, like the Atlantic and Pacific |
| 34% | DEVIL | 5 | Tasmanian ___, world's largest carnivorous marsupial that is native to the island of Tasmania |