| 100% | JUDAIC | 6 | ___ studies (courses on the history of a certain religious group) |
| 43% | ODDS | 4 | Bookies set these based on the likelihood of a certain result (plural) |
| 42% | SYLLABUS | 8 | Description of the contents of a course of study |
| 42% | LORE | 4 | History of a certain region or culture |
| 42% | LIVY | 4 | Writer on the history of Rome |
| 41% | NINE | 4 | Half the number of holes on a golf course |
| 41% | ARYL | 4 | Of a certain hydrocarbon group |
| 40% | PAR | 3 | 4, for more than half of the holes on a standard golf course |
| 40% | SAXOPHONEBOOKS | 14 | Publications dedicated to the history of a jazz instrument? |
| 40% | DOYLE | 5 | Name on the spine of “A Study in Scarlet” |
| 39% | ERASURE | 7 | Problematic omission of a certain group |
| 39% | ERASURE | 7 | Problematic exclusion of a certain group |
| 39% | LAB | 3 | Part of a certain college course |
| 39% | DOWN | 4 | "I am reading a book on the history of glue. It's impossible to put ___!" |
| 39% | APEURO | 6 | History class with a unit on the Age of Reformation, casually |
| 39% | NINE | 4 | The number of holes on either half of a golf course |
| 39% | ASTAIRE | 7 | The history of dance on film begins with him |
| 39% | TATAR | 5 | Member of a certain Volga ethnic group |
| 39% | GREEN | 5 | Grassy area of the golf course that you would play on during a day of golf |
| 39% | SIDE | 4 | On the wrong ___ of history |
| 39% | CLARISSA | 8 | 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled The History of a Young Lady |
| 38% | GREEKCROSS | 10 | Religious symbol resembling a plus sign ... or a hint to the three groups of shaded squares in this puzzle |
| 38% | PERRY | 5 | The Band ___, country music group that won a Grammy for their cover of the song "Gentle on My Mind" |
| 38% | SPORTSEDITOR | 12 | Overseer of a certain section of the paper |
| 38% | STAT | 4 | % on the back of a baseball card, say |
| 38% | RASTA | 5 | Member of a Jamaican religious group |
| 38% | CANONICAL | 9 | The laws of a religious text |
| 38% | BEACHSIDE | 9 | Of a property on the shore |
| 38% | ITOO | 4 | Classic Langston Hughes poem quoted on a wall of the National Museum of African American History and Culture |
| 38% | LOTUSEATER | 10 | Consumer of a certain narcotic plant, in the Odyssey |