| 100% | INTERNET | 8 | "Town square for the global village of tomorrow," per Bill Gates |
| 40% | NIT | 3 | Alternate name for the unit of luminance, candela per square meter |
| 35% | PIZZABOX | 8 | Perfect square for the circumference of pie |
| 31% | AFC | 3 | Home of the Bills and Patriots, for short |
| 30% | AMT | 3 | Figure at the bottom of a bill, for short |
| 30% | REMIX | 5 | The version of "Old Town Road" featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, for one |
| 30% | COTANGENT | 9 | For the smallest angle in a 30°−60°−90° triangle, it's the square root of three |
| 29% | ROMANTASY | 9 | Portmanteau for a “genre of swords and soulmates,” per the Guardian |
| 29% | HOLMFIRTH | 9 | Town in West Yorkshire; filming location for BBC TV sitcom Last of the Summer Wine |
| 29% | SALOP | 5 | Former name for both the county of Shropshire and the town of Shrewsbury |
| 29% | ARLEN | 5 | Fictional town in Texas that is the setting for "King of the Hill" |
| 29% | TIP | 3 | What some restaurants include on the bill for parties of six or more |
| 29% | BUMPERCROPS | 11 | Bountiful harvests for farmers … or another hint to the crossings of shaded squares |
| 28% | NASEBY | 6 | Village in Northamptonshire; site of a 1645 victory for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War |
| 28% | SUCCESS | 7 | A "lousy teacher," per Bill Gates |
| 28% | BONO | 4 | Musician who was named Time’s Person of the Year alongside Bill and Melinda Gates |
| 28% | SAKE | 4 | For the purpose of |
| 28% | SAKE | 4 | For the ___ of argument |
| 27% | ONAWHIM | 7 | For the heck of it |
| 27% | ATCOST | 6 | For the price of production |
| 27% | EEE | 3 | For the broad of foot |
| 27% | ASATEST | 7 | For the purpose of diagnosing |
| 27% | YENTE | 5 | Lady who acted as the shadchan for the fictional village of Anatevka |
| 27% | JEREZ | 5 | Town in SW Spain famous for the making of sherry |
| 27% | BRAINROT | 8 | 2024 Word of the Year, per Collins Dictionary (just the shaded squares) or Oxford (the entire entry) |
| 27% | MUTUALAID | 9 | "The radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world," per Dean Spade |
| 27% | DARKMATTER | 10 | Hypothetical material said to account for twenty-five per cent of the universe’s total energetic density |
| 27% | GOI | 3 | "... for the grace of God, ___" |
| 27% | TAXI | 4 | Head for the gate |
| 27% | ELCHE | 5 | Town in Valencia noted for the performance of an annual medieval religious drama |