| 100% | ART | 3 | "The lie that enables us to realize the truth": Picasso |
| 58% | ART | 3 | "A lie that makes us realize truth," per Picasso |
| 48% | ALIE | 4 | "Art is __ that makes us realize truth": Picasso |
| 48% | ALIE | 4 | "Art is ___ that makes us realize truth": Picasso |
| 41% | LIARS | 5 | Those who are prone to stretch the truth |
| 39% | UGLY | 4 | The ___ truth (fact that's unpleasant to acknowledge) |
| 37% | HARBOR | 6 | Pearl __, event that caused the US to enter WWII |
| 37% | ODDITY | 6 | David Bowie's hit "Space ___" that introduced us to the fictional astronaut "Major Tom" |
| 37% | ERIE | 4 | City that's home to the U.S. Brig Niagara |
| 35% | ART | 3 | What we have "in order not to die of the truth," per Nietzsche |
| 35% | HOMERUN | 7 | In baseball, a hit that enables the batter to run round all four bases |
| 34% | SALEM | 5 | Capital that's home to the oldest university in the Western U.S. (1842) |
| 34% | JAPANESE | 8 | Language that gave us the words heard phonetically in the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | OATH | 4 | To tell the truth |
| 34% | ISERE | 5 | Ship that brought the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. |
| 33% | TALLAHATCHIE | 12 | River rising in Mississippi, US, that converges with the Yalobusha at Greenwood to form the Yazoo |
| 33% | ISERE | 5 | French frigate that carried the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. |
| 32% | MAC | 3 | ___ and cheese, a casserole baked in oven that is considered to be a comfort food in the US |
| 32% | DEBT | 4 | The amount that is owed to someone |
| 32% | AVOW | 4 | Swear to be the truth |
| 32% | LIE | 3 | Fail to tell the truth |
| 32% | UNDEROATH | 9 | Sworn to tell the truth |
| 32% | TELESCOPE | 9 | Notable invention from the 17th century, that is an assembly of lenses and allows us to look into space |
| 32% | INDENIAL | 8 | Not wanting to believe the truth |
| 32% | OATH | 4 | Under ___ (sworn to tell the truth) |
| 32% | OATH | 4 | A commitment to tell the truth |
| 32% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| 32% | FACT | 4 | That's the truth |
| 32% | SOFARAS | 7 | To the extent that |
| 32% | ASFARAS | 7 | To the extent that |