| 100% | UNITE | 5 | — the Union, organisation formed in 2007 from a merger of Amicus and the TGWU |
| 44% | OPEC | 4 | Organisation formed in 1961 to administer a common policy for the sale of petroleum |
| 44% | OPEC | 4 | Organisation formed in 1960 to administer a common policy for the sale of petroleum |
| 42% | UNISON | 6 | Trade union formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of COHSE, NALGO, and NUPE |
| 40% | NATO | 4 | International organisation formed in 1949 for purposes of collective security whose members include Canada and the UK |
| 40% | BARACK | 6 | "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 39% | STAN | 4 | Overzealous admirer, possibly from a mash-up of the terms "stalker" and "fan" in an Eminem song |
| 38% | LARD | 4 | Fat from the abdomen of a pig rendered and clarified for use in cooking |
| 38% | ROLLTHEDICE | 11 | Take a chance, and how to form the sequence in each set of circled letters |
| 37% | OGLESBY | 7 | Richard J —, Union Army general in the American Civil War; governor of Illinois from 1865-69, 1873 and 1885-89 |
| 37% | ANGLE | 5 | Member of a people from north Germany who invaded and settled large parts of England in the 5th and 6th centuries |
| 37% | NICOBAR | 7 | — Islands, chain in the Indian Ocean that form, with the Andaman Islands, a Union Territory of India |
| 37% | EASTERNCOUGAR | 13 | A subspecies of puma from North America which was formally declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 37% | CROWDFUND | 9 | Raise money from a large number of people on the Internet, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2014 |
| 36% | IJSSELMEER | 10 | Shallow artificial lake in the Netherlands formed from the closure of the Zuiderzee by a dam in 1932 |
| 36% | LAS | 3 | In Deck the Halls, you sing a lot of Fas and these |
| 36% | THE | 3 | "All in ___ Family," CBS sitcom about the life of a working-class father and his family that ran from 1971 - 1979 |
| 36% | BROOKLYNNETS | 12 | Basketball team from the same city as 30a and ranked as the sixth most valuable NBA team in 2018 with a valuation of $2.3 billion: 2 wds. |
| 36% | BOAC | 4 | State-owned airline created in 1939 by a merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways |
| 36% | INACROWN | 8 | "You Should See Me ___," Billie Eilish song released in 2018 and the title of which was inspired by a scene from "Sherlock": 3 wds. |
| 36% | MONTRACHET | 10 | Goat cheese made in Burgundy in the form of a cylinder wrapped with a chestnut leaf and tied with raffia |
| 36% | MELANIA | 7 | “___ and Me,” book sourced in part from surreptitious recordings of conversations with the First Lady (September, 2020) |
| 36% | BOAC | 4 | State-owned airline created in 1939 by a merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways (inits) |
| 35% | NUDE | 4 | Second single from Radiohead's album in 18a, that had a different title originally and was supposed to be part of the album "OK Computer" |
| 35% | OFGEM | 5 | Non-ministerial government department formed by the merger of OFFER and Ofgas |
| 35% | HALIFAX | 7 | A town in England and the capital of Nova Scotia |
| 35% | CASH | 4 | Money in the form of bills and coins |
| 35% | BRIE | 4 | Grayish white cheese that originated from a French region of the same name and is considered to be in a low lactose range of 0-2% |
| 35% | CORFU | 5 | Island in the Ionian Sea forming part of a regional unit of Greece |
| 35% | RATATOUILLE | 11 | Animated comedy film released in 2007 whose title refers to a French dish and the plot follows a rat named Remy who dreams of becoming a chef |