| 100% | COSMIC | 6 | "The ___ Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective," book by the astronomer Carl Sagan which was originally published in 1973 |
| 38% | COME | 4 | "Kingdom ___," comic book miniseries published by DC Comics, which is set in the future |
| 36% | WATCHMEN | 8 | Comic book maxiseries published by DC Comics and is set in an alternate reality in the '80s |
| 33% | BLOOD | 5 | "At Night All ___ is Black," book by David Diop which won the International Booker Prize in 2021 |
| 32% | PLAGUE | 6 | "The ___," novel by Albert Camus published in 1947 which was inspired by the 1849 cholera epidemic |
| 32% | ARP | 3 | "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies", published in 1966 by Caltech, was the creation of astronomer Halton ___ |
| 32% | EARRING | 7 | "Girl with a Pearl ___," an oil painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer which is housed in the Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| 32% | LINGER | 6 | "Dare Not ___: The Presidential Years," book by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa that was posthumously published in 2017 |
| 31% | WINTERDANCE | 11 | Non-fiction book written by Gary Paulsen which is an inspiration for the Disney movie, "Snow Dogs" |
| 31% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 31% | GAMES | 5 | "The Hunger ___," book by Suzanne Collins which features the line "And may the odds be ever in your favor" |
| 31% | EARTHS | 6 | "Crisis on Infinite ___," comic book maxiseries published by DC Comics and which is set in a shared universe |
| 31% | LILACS | 6 | "When ___ Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," poem by Walt Whitman which is an elegy to Abraham Lincoln |
| 31% | STARRYNIGHT | 11 | "The ___," an oil on canvas by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh which is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC: 2 wds. |
| 31% | MRMOJORISIN | 11 | Phrase used in the song "L.A. Woman," by Jim Morrison which is an anagram of his name: 3 wds. |
| 31% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | 1977 novel by Toni Morrison which is about the life of an African-American man living in Michigan: 3 wds. |
| 30% | MAKE | 4 | "___ The Connection: 10 Steps To A Better Body And A Better Life," book by Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene published in 1996 |
| 30% | SHEE | 4 | Fairy-like Irish being that lives underground or in an alternate universe and which is sometimes preceded by the word "ban" |
| 30% | MEMOIR | 6 | Kind of book, written by 14-/18-Across in 1853 after being rescued, on which the movie is based |
| 30% | COUNTRYBLUES | 12 | Acoustic folk style of music in which the singer is accompanied by an acoustic guitar: 2 wds. |
| 30% | MRSROBINSON | 11 | Song by Simon & Garfunkel which was included in the 1967 film "The Graduate" and originally appeared on the album "Bookends": 2 wds. |
| 30% | SAND | 4 | "Love Letters in the ___," song with an ocean-related word in the title, a version of which was sung by Pat Boone |
| 30% | SAND | 4 | "Love Letters in the ___," song with an ocean-related word in the title, a version of which was sang by Pat Boone |
| 30% | SONG | 4 | "Morning ___," poem by Sylvia Plath written in 1961 about an artist's freedom of expression which was included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 30% | BRIEFHISTORYOF | 14 | "A ___Time," 1988 book on cosmology by Stephen Hawking which is written in a non-technical way for the masses: 3 wds. |
| 30% | SLANG | 5 | Specialty of "Urban Dictionary" which was used in 2011 by a district court in an ATF complaint to document the meanings of "murk" |
| 29% | GALWAY | 6 | "___ Girl," song by English singer Ed Sheeran which has the name of an Irish city in its title that is home to Eyre Square |
| 29% | MAUI | 4 | 17th largest island in the US which was originally named "Ihikapalaumaewa" |
| 29% | TRACY | 5 | "Dick ___," one of the longest-running American comic strips which was first published in October 1931 |
| 29% | BARNEY | 6 | "___ Google and Snuffy Smith," the third-longest running American comics series which was first published in 1919 |