| 100% | NATURE | 6 | Word with "second" or "laws of" |
| 81% | LEAP | 4 | Word with second or year |
| 77% | PENAL | 5 | Word with colony or law |
| 77% | BASEMAN | 7 | Word with second or third, but not fourth or fifth |
| 76% | PER | 3 | Word with second, minute or hour |
| 73% | NATURE | 6 | Word with human or second |
| 71% | ALL | 3 | Word with "first of" or "best of" |
| 69% | PER | 3 | Word with "second" or "mile" |
| 67% | SPAN | 4 | Word with "life" or "attention" to mean a duration of time |
| 67% | OHARA | 5 | Second word of ''Gone With the Wind'' |
| 67% | OHARA | 5 | Second word of Gone with the Wind |
| 65% | PER | 3 | Word with "diem" or "second" |
| 64% | HAIL | 4 | Word of praise or a weather condition with ice pellets |
| 64% | ENFORCE | 7 | Compel observance of or compliance with a law |
| 63% | ALAI | 4 | Second word of a game name that rhymes with the first |
| 63% | FIELD | 5 | Word with "of honor" or "of vision" |
| 59% | THERESNOTWO | 11 | With 64-Across, words of certainty ... or a hint to 23-, 40- and 56-Across |
| 59% | YOU | 3 | "___ gotta be kidding?"... or word that sounds like the second letter of 25a |
| 59% | LEGEND | 6 | Folklore tale, or word that starts with the name of a walking limb |
| 58% | MOST | 4 | Ending with second or upper |
| 58% | NANO | 4 | Prefix with second or technology |
| 58% | NANO | 4 | Prefix with second or surgery |
| 58% | NANO | 4 | Prefix with second or bot |
| 56% | CROSSBREEDS | 11 | Animals with parents of two distinct varieties ... or a description of the pairs of shaded words? |
| 56% | SWEAR | 5 | Word with word or jar |
| 56% | PUTONESFOOTINIT | 15 | Say the wrong thing, or what to do with the first words of the starred answers |
| 56% | ELSE | 4 | Word with what or or |
| 56% | PER | 3 | Word before second or hour |
| 56% | HAND | 4 | Word after second or helping |
| 56% | INA | 3 | Words with word or way |