| 100% | TALEOFTEACITIES | 15 | Yarn about pekoe exporting towns of India? (with "A") |
| 47% | MALAYALAM | 9 | Language of India with a palindromic name |
| 41% | KITTYCAT | 8 | One playing with a ball of yarn, perhaps |
| 41% | HONSHU | 6 | Island with a population of about 100 million |
| 41% | MESON | 5 | Particle with a diameter of about one femtometer |
| 40% | PION | 4 | Particle with a mass about 270 times that of an electron |
| 40% | FLA | 3 | *One with a minority opinion about the shape of the world |
| 39% | PURL | 4 | Pixar short about a ball of yarn |
| 39% | PAWED | 5 | Played with, as a ball of yarn |
| 39% | PAWEDAT | 7 | Played with, as a ball of yarn |
| 39% | LASTPICTURESHOW | 15 | *1971 film about coming of age in a small, one-cinema Texas town, with "The" |
| 38% | LAMINAHOUSE | 11 | Movie flop about a dwelling with layers of veneer? |
| 38% | LETMEGUESS | 10 | Words from someone with a good idea of what you’re about to say |
| 38% | BUTDOCTOR | 9 | With 14 and 19 Across, punchline of a joke about a clown |
| 38% | PAW | 3 | What a cat pushes a ball of yarn around with |
| 37% | AGE | 3 | "Ice ___," animated film with a "cold" title about a mammoth and his band of friends |
| 37% | HOCUS | 5 | With 30-Across, 1993 Sarah Jessica Parker movie about a trio of witches |
| 37% | EDINBURGH | 9 | A town in Indiana that shares its name with the capital of Scotland |
| 37% | AREZZO | 6 | Italian town with a popular Joust of the Saracens |
| 37% | THEODD | 6 | With 33-Across, CBS remake of a classic sitcom about mismatched roommates: 2 wds. |
| 37% | EDEDDNEDDY | 10 | Cartoon Network show about a trio of preteen boys with similar names |
| 36% | EDAM | 4 | Dutch town with a cow on its coat of arms |
| 36% | LIVING | 6 | With 9-Down, Queen Latifah sitcom from the nineties about a group of unpartnered friends |
| 36% | THATSSORAVEN | 12 | Disney Channel show of the two-thousands about a teen with psychic abilities |
| 36% | COALPORT | 8 | Town in Shropshire associated with a type of porcelain |
| 36% | AMYANDISABELLE | 14 | Elizabeth Strout novel set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls about a mother and daughter (3 wds.) |
| 36% | WELCOMETO | 9 | With 51-Across, humorous podcast about a fictional small town beset by mysterious conspiracies: 2 wds. |
| 36% | DRIVETO | 7 | With 37-Across, subtitle of a hit Netflix documentary series about Formula 1 racing (2 wds.) |
| 36% | LIFE | 4 | "___ of Pi," film about a boy lost at sea with only a tiger for company |
| 35% | SAHM | 4 | Doug of the Sir Douglas Quintet with the hit "She's About a Mover" |