| 100% | LILACS | 6 | "When ___ Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," poem by Walt Whitman which is an elegy to Abraham Lincoln |
| 39% | LILACS | 6 | Whitman's "When — Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" |
| 38% | ELEGY | 5 | Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," e.g. |
| 35% | ROAD | 4 | "Song of the Open ___," poem by Walt Whitman which is about the expansion of America |
| 35% | SING | 4 | "One's Self I ___," poem by Walt Whitman which is a part of 21a |
| 34% | FERRY | 5 | "Crossing Brooklyn ___," poem by Walt Whitman which describes his trip from Manhattan to Brooklyn |
| 33% | LADY | 4 | "___ Lazarus," 1965 poem by Sylvia Plath in which she alludes to the mythical phoenix and which was included in the collection "Ariel" |
| 33% | SONG | 4 | "Morning ___," poem by Sylvia Plath written in 1961 about an artist's freedom of expression which was included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 33% | 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" |
| 31% | 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 |
| 30% | DAY | 3 | "The ___ the Earth Stood Still," 2008 sci-fi film directed by Scott Derrickson, starring Keanu Reeves in which an alien is sent to Earth to change human behaviour |
| 30% | WIND | 4 | "Blowin' in the ___," 1962 song by Bob Dylan which later became an anthem of change |
| 29% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 29% | IONE | 4 | Girl's name in which the last three letters are equivalent to the first? |
| 28% | FERRY | 5 | "Crossing Brooklyn ___," poem by Walt Whitman about crossing the Brooklyn river |
| 28% | EUCHARIST | 9 | Christian sacrament in which the Last Supper is commemorated by the consecration of bread and wine |
| 28% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 28% | CAPTAIN | 7 | Abraham Lincoln, in a Whitman poem |
| 28% | JIG | 3 | This was changed to Juliette in 1956 when the NATO Phonetic Alphabet was adopted by the US |
| 28% | COUNTRYBLUES | 12 | Acoustic folk style of music in which the singer is accompanied by an acoustic guitar: 2 wds. |
| 28% | SAND | 4 | "Love Letters in the ___," song with an ocean-related word in the title, a version of which was sung by Pat Boone |
| 28% | SAND | 4 | "Love Letters in the ___," song with an ocean-related word in the title, a version of which was sang by Pat Boone |
| 28% | SPACEINVADERS | 13 | Classic arcade game released by Taito in 1978 in which the goal is to defeat aliens: 2 wds. |
| 28% | PRO | 3 | ___ Bowl, prestigious annual event held by the NFL to which Vinny Testaverde was invited in 1996 and 1998 |
| 27% | SEAMAN | 6 | The Canadian Navy caused an uproar last month in announcing that this rank would be renamed to be more gender neutral |
| 27% | NEWLOOK | 7 | Name by which the women's fashion lines Corolle and Huit, introduced in 1947 by Christian Dior, came to be known |
| 27% | BUGHOUSE | 8 | Chess variant played by four players on two boards, in which captured pieces on one board are moved to the other |
| 26% | ROTTENEGG | 9 | What the "last one in" is, when running to the pool: 2 wds. |
| 26% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | 1977 novel by Toni Morrison which is about the life of an African-American man living in Michigan: 3 wds. |
| 26% | HAT | 3 | One of Abraham Lincoln's is in the Smithsonian |