| 100% | TALENT | 6 | "Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong |
| 31% | ZOO | 3 | It's time to explore the beautiful place you're in, what are you visiting? Schedule your day! (1/3) Place to see lions and pandas |
| 31% | CRIB | 4 | It's the place to be, baby! |
| 30% | STATEDEPARTMENT | 15 | Thomas Jefferson was the first to lead it |
| 30% | LISP | 4 | "Whose cruel idea was it for the word '___' to have an S in it?" (Steven Wright joke) |
| 30% | DEBTALF | 7 | ... Looking back on it, it's weird the rental company was named ___. What does an ET owing money have to do with trucks?
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| 29% | SIMON | 5 | ___ Says, children's game where the objective is to follow the instructions |
| 29% | NATURALGAS | 10 | Trinidad and Tobago resource that has led to it be one of the richest western countries per capita |
| 29% | ROME | 4 | The place where all roads lead to |
| 29% | AMERICANDREAM | 13 | “It’s called the ___ ’cause you have to be asleep to believe it”: George Carlin |
| 28% | IRAQ | 4 | Where the Noah's Ark story is thought to have occurred, today |
| 28% | DST | 3 | What Ariz. and Hawaii are the only two states not to have |
| 28% | PITCH | 5 | It has the potential to be a hit |
| 28% | ETAT | 4 | What France's "le Roi Soleil" - the Sun King - is purportedly said to have equated himself to |
| 28% | INSPOT | 6 | It's *the* place to be |
| 28% | HOTELBARS | 9 | Places where drinks can be charged to the room |
| 28% | ROOF | 4 | Now you know what to look for, but where is it? (1/5) Did it fall out when Santa landed on the ___ of the house? |
| 28% | CANOE | 5 | "The water races look so interesting. What is that kayak-like craft called? It's going to have a new extreme slalom!" |
| 28% | GALA | 4 | Party where everyone is dressed to the nines |
| 27% | ONEWORD | 7 | What the answer to this clue is not (it's two!) |
| 27% | SUBTITLEDAPARIOTICSONG | 22 | The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ |
| 27% | THERED | 6 | "And without those beans ___ have been no stalk to get up to the giants in the first place!" |
| 27% | AMORE | 5 | What it is when "the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine" |
| 27% | GEHENNA | 7 | Place near Jerusalem where, according to the Hebrew Bible, children were sacrificed |
| 27% | WHAM | 4 | ___ageddon (game where the goal is to make it to the end of Christmas Eve without hearing "Last Christmas") |
| 27% | NOONE | 5 | Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who |
| 27% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 27% | BACKFIRES | 9 | Has the opposite outcome to what was intended |
| 27% | TEE | 3 | Small rubber peg on which a football is placed to raise it off the ground |
| 27% | GOD | 3 | What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer |