| 100% | OREOOS | 6 | "It's the stuff breakfast dreams are made of," per Post |
| 48% | SAMSPADE | 8 | "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" speaker |
| 44% | DRYMARTIN | 9 | What "should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy," per Noël Coward |
| 40% | TACT | 4 | It's been called "the art of making a point without making an enemy" |
| 40% | EURYTHMICS | 10 | "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" band being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday |
| 39% | ANNIELENNOX | 11 | "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" singer who was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 38% | NATURE | 6 | It is "full of genius, full of the divinity," per Henry David Thoreau |
| 38% | VARIETY | 7 | It's said to be the spice of life |
| 38% | OED | 3 | It's 2021 word of the year was "vax" |
| 38% | OPERA | 5 | Of all the noises known to man, it is the most expensive, per an old quip |
| 38% | XXXXXXX | 7 | Fingernails are made of it |
| 37% | HORSEMEN | 8 | It's said four of these will bring the apocalypse |
| 37% | IMITATION | 9 | It's said to be the sincerest form of flattery |
| 37% | STARSTUFF | 9 | What we are made of, per Carl Sagan |
| 37% | WOOL | 4 | Stuff winter clothes are made of |
| 37% | SATIN | 5 | Some sheets are made of it |
| 37% | ART | 3 | "The ___ of making ___ is putting it together" |
| 37% | SUGAR | 5 | Cotton candy is made of it |
| 37% | BEAUTY | 6 | It's said to be in the eye of the beholder |
| 37% | WATER | 5 | It makes up 71% of the Earth's surface |
| 37% | TEA | 3 | About which Orwell wrote "The best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes" |
| 36% | ARGON | 5 | It makes up nearly 1% of the Earth's atmosphere |
| 36% | CRIB | 4 | It may be in the palm of one's hand |
| 36% | NOOSE | 5 | It may be at the end of one's rope |
| 36% | STERNER | 7 | "Ambition should be made of __ stuff": "Julius Caesar" |
| 36% | STERNER | 7 | "Ambition should be made of ___ stuff": "Julius Caesar" |
| 36% | KLENCKEATLAS | 12 | Book made up of 41 copperplate maps held by the British Library and which was once the world's largest book of its kind: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ARK | 3 | It was made of gopher wood |
| 36% | ITO | 3 | "Sweet dreams are made of this, who am ___ disagree?" (Eurythmics lyrics): 2 wds. |
| 36% | PARIS | 5 | It's been called the "City of Light" and the "City of Love" |