| 100% | ANART | 5 | "Conversation is ___ in which a man has all mankind for his competitors": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 34% | ALL | 3 | "___ in the Family," TV show about a working class man and his family, which is ranked 9th on Rolling Stone's 2016 list of "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" |
| 33% | ROOM | 4 | 2015 drama film in which Brie Larson played a woman who has been held captive for seven years |
| 33% | ALONE | 5 | "Home ___," Christmas comedy film in which a boy is mistakenly left behind at home when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation |
| 32% | TALK | 4 | Hit song by Khalid from his album "Free Spirit" which was nominated for a Grammy in 2020 |
| 32% | LOCATION | 8 | Debut single by Khalid from his album "American Teen" which was nominated for a Grammy in 2018 |
| 31% | CAUL | 4 | Sigmund Freud's birth in 1856 was notable for this, which his mother considered a sign of good luck |
| 31% | AREYOUTHEONE | 12 | MTV/Paramount+ reality dating show in which men and women must determine who have been paired up as couples by a matchmaking algorithm (4 wds.) |
| 30% | XXXXXXX | 7 | Competition in which all the competitors are high |
| 30% | SEDER | 5 | Meal in which a cup of wine is poured for the prophet Elijah |
| 30% | MASLOW | 6 | Psychologist Abraham who came up with his principle in 1966 that "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" |
| 30% | STEM | 4 | Subjects in which women have traditionally been underrepresented, for short |
| 29% | SACKRACES | 9 | Contests in which people are rewarded for jumping to a conclusion? |
| 29% | RALPH | 5 | ___ Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist who is known for his speech titled "The American Scholar" |
| 29% | LIT | 3 | Category in which Bob Dylan was awarded his Nobel Prize, for short |
| 29% | ASL | 3 | System in which "time" is a tap on the wrist, for short |
| 29% | FRIEND | 6 | "Bury a ___," Billie Eilish song released in 2019 which was also the main inspiration for the album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" |
| 29% | SOUL | 4 | "Or what shall a man give in exchange for his ___?": Mark 8:37 |
| 29% | CROWCONTROL | 11 | *What a straw man in a cornfield is for? |
| 29% | MATCHPLAY | 9 | Golf scoring system in which a player or team earns a point for each hole they have won |
| 28% | MATTA | 5 | Roberto ___, Chilean painter known for his surrealist paintings like "The Earth is a Man" |
| 28% | COLINFARRELL | 12 | Best Actor Oscar nominee for his portrayal of a man who is suddenly cut out of the life of his best friend in the 2022 film "The Banshees of Inisherin" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | REB | 3 | Title for Tevye in "If I Were a Rich Man" |
| 28% | LONDON | 6 | "___ Calling," song by British punk rock band the Clash which has the name of a city in its title that is known for the clock tower"Big Ben" |
| 28% | BYRON | 5 | "I had a dream, which was not all a dream" poet |
| 28% | BACHELOR | 8 | "The ___," series where a man has to choose a fiancee, which became a cultural phenomenon after its debut in 2002 |
| 28% | CALIFORNIA | 10 | State which was a republic and had a bear flag in 1846 |
| 27% | BISCAY | 6 | Bay for which a French soup may have been named |
| 27% | DOLPH | 5 | ___ Lundgren, actor best known for his role in "Rocky IV" who has a degree in Chemical Engineering |