| 100% | KERNEL | 6 | You can always find some popcorn ___s at the bottom of the bag |
| 58% | RAGGEDYCANDY | 12 | *What you might find at the bottom of a trick-or-treater's bag? |
| 57% | FRENCHFRY | 9 | Single item seemingly always found at the bottom of a McDonald's bag |
| 48% | BANDS | 5 | *Elastic loops that you might find snapped or tangled at the bottom of a junk drawer |
| 47% | BREAD | 5 | It's found at the bottom of the food pyramid |
| 46% | FATHERFIGURES | 13 | Some male role models, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | IRELAND | 7 | Cork can be found at the bottom of it |
| 44% | ORR | 3 | Bobby ___ (Bruins legend you can find at the end of "Knorr") |
| 44% | ARF | 3 | Comic strip bark that you can find at the end of "scarf" |
| 43% | SEEDS | 5 | Detritus at the bottom of a bag of bagels |
| 43% | MORE | 4 | Word you can click on, seen at the bottom of many online news articles |
| 42% | TOES | 4 | Wigglers at the bottom of a sleeping bag |
| 42% | FOOT | 4 | Body part whose parts are aptly found at the bottom of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 41% | PLEASE | 6 | The P in PTO, found at the bottom of a page |
| 41% | CTRL | 4 | Key that's often found at the ends of a keyboard's bottom row |
| 41% | FRY | 3 | Loose item at the bottom of a fast-food bag |
| 40% | FRY | 3 | Loose item at the bottom of a fast-food bag, perhaps |
| 40% | ZERO | 4 | Number that can never be at the bottom of a fraction |
| 40% | BOOK | 4 | What you find in a library, or a word which can be used at the start of 20a, 25a, 35a, 48a, 55a, 31d, and 45d |
| 39% | IRELAND | 7 | Cork's at the bottom of it |
| 39% | DREGS | 5 | Last few drops at the bottom of the keg, which by this time you don't mind drinking anyway |
| 39% | POT | 3 | ___ of gold (what you might find at the end of a rainbow) |
| 39% | ASA | 3 | "Sex Education" actor you may find at the beginning of "ASAP" |
| 38% | LOLLIPOP | 8 | Hard candy you'd find wrapped at the end of a stick |
| 38% | ITE | 3 | You might find it at the tail end of Manhattan? |
| 38% | HASH | 4 | Something you can buy at any time of day in Frank's Diner down on the corner |
| 38% | SEVEN | 5 | Number of times it's marking time (plus you could add a big one at the end) |
| 38% | INLAST | 6 | At the bottom of the standings |
| 38% | ANTARCTIC | 9 | At the bottom of the world |
| 38% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Revelation, or what can be found at the starts of the starred answers |