| 100% | APOOR | 5 | "... __ player, / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage": Macbeth |
| 80% | UPON | 4 | "... that struts and frets his hour __ the stage": Macbeth |
| 31% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of the stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 30% | KNOCKEMDEAD | 11 | "Get on that stage and wow the crowd" |
| 29% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 28% | MERELY | 6 | "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women ___ players" |
| 28% | DON | 3 | & 21A US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak |
| 27% | BEAST | 5 | "Beauty and the ___," Disney stage musical that is one of the highest-grossing Broadway musicals |
| 27% | ONCE | 4 | Upon the instant that |
| 27% | CCLAMP | 6 | Item that the stage crew probably uses to hang the lighting and speakers |
| 27% | RED | 3 | The M&M macot who removes his outer shell and says, "Oh, it's that kind of party." |
| 27% | DELATOUR | 8 | Georges —, French Baroque painter whose works include Job Taunted by his Wife and The Dice Players |
| 26% | ECTO | 4 | Hi-C ___ Cooler, beverage that had a tie-in with the Ghostbusters brand and was famous in the 80s |
| 26% | DRAWTWO | 7 | Uno card that causes the next player to take more cards and lose a turn (2 wds.) |
| 26% | BLOCKING | 8 | The staging and movement of actors |
| 26% | ZEN | 3 | "___ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," 1974 book by philosopher Robert M. Pirsig that explores his concept of Quality |
| 26% | DRAGON | 6 | Disney's "American ___: Jake Long," an animated series that follows the adventures of a teen and his superpower |
| 25% | RIVERDALE | 9 | Teen drama series following Archie Andrews and his friends that is named after the town it is set in |
| 25% | ACTOR | 5 | All the stage is his world |
| 25% | BATTER | 6 | Baseball player that faces the pitcher |
| 25% | ICHIRO | 6 | Japanese-born player that had the 3,000th hit of his MLB career at Coors Field playing against the Colorado Rockies in August 2016 |
| 25% | ARK | 3 | The ___ of the Covenant, biblical object that Indiana Jones and his rivals covet in the first installment of the "Indiana Jones" movies |
| 25% | CANDIDA | 7 | Comedy play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1894 that revolves around the lives of a clergyman and his wife |
| 25% | FLACO | 5 | Owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023 and became an online celebrity, before his death last month |
| 25% | CRONKITE | 8 | His tag line was “And that’s the way it is” |
| 25% | SON | 3 | "The Good ___," 1993 psychological thriller directed by Joseph Ruben that follows the story of a 12-year-old and his psychopathic cousin |
| 25% | UDONISHASLEM | 12 | Power forward and oldest active player in the NBA who is playing his 20th season with the Miami Heat: 2 wds. |
| 25% | THE | 3 | "All in ___ Family," CBS sitcom about the life of a working-class father and his family that ran from 1971 - 1979 |
| 24% | IPOD | 4 | Music player that had Shuffle and Touch models |