| 100% | ANGEL | 5 | With 8-Across, Venezuelan landmark whose water drops 3,200+ feet |
| 36% | ANGELFALLS | 10 | Venezuelan attraction with a drop of 3,212 feet |
| 32% | ANIMAL | 6 | With 8 Across, raising livestock |
| 31% | BIG | 3 | With 8-Across, a famous landmark in London known for its great bell |
| 31% | NORTH | 5 | With 8-Across, country whose legislature is known as the Supreme People's Assembly |
| 28% | SUGAR | 5 | With 8-Across, tree that produces nearly two-foot-long cones |
| 27% | WHATEVER | 8 | With 19-Across, 2017 Imagine Dragons hit whose video features a water-filled room |
| 27% | YOULL | 5 | With 21 Across, 3 Down, 8 Down, and 20 Down, response to Ralphie's request for a BB gun in "A Christmas Story" |
| 27% | STATUEOFLIBERTY | 15 | Landmark with a torch: 3 wds. |
| 27% | LAKE | 4 | With 64 Across, water bordering Cleveland |
| 27% | BASE | 4 | With 8-Across, binary |
| 27% | CHOCK | 5 | With 8-Across, stuffed |
| 27% | HORSE | 5 | With 8-Across, savvy |
| 26% | SQUIRTLE | 8 | Water Pokemon whose name rhymes with turtle |
| 26% | ENGLISH | 7 | With 39 Across, water north of France |
| 26% | LAKE | 4 | With 65 Across. ''Great'' water bordering Ohio |
| 26% | TENDAYSIN | 9 | With 37-Across, new ABC series about a TV producer whose daughter goes missing: 3 wds. |
| 26% | THEHEARTWANTS | 13 | With 42-Across, Selena Gomez song whose title is also a Woody Allen quote: 3 wds. |
| 26% | DACTYL | 6 | Poetic foot with 3 syllables |
| 26% | MAKE | 4 | With 8-Across, add up |
| 26% | GOT | 3 | With 8-Across, required reorientation |
| 26% | SOME | 4 | With 8-Across, "What gall!" |
| 26% | CARES | 5 | With 8-Across, tends to |
| 26% | EIGHT | 5 | With 8-Across, Hanukkah duration |
| 26% | MONEY | 5 | With 8-Across, check alternative |
| 26% | NEST | 4 | With lammergeiers, this could be eight feet across |
| 26% | WECANTBE | 8 | With 19-Across, 2024 Ariana Grande hit whose title ends with "(Wait for Your Love)": 3 wds. |
| 26% | RED | 3 | With 3-Down and 4-Across, the human body makes around 200 billion of them per day |
| 26% | SKI | 3 | With 8-Across, winter break getaway |
| 26% | JEB | 3 | With 8-Across, 2016 presidential hopeful |