| 100% | HAG | 3 | “A freckled whelp ___-born”: Prospero’s cruel description of Caliban in “The Tempest” |
| 43% | MIRANDA | 7 | Daughter of Prospero in The Tempest |
| 42% | IWAS | 4 | "___ born by the river / In a little tent" (start of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come") |
| 41% | PAPA | 4 | Biggest of the Three Bears, in a fairy tale |
| 40% | AZIMUTH | 7 | In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a standard direction |
| 40% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 39% | MIRANDA | 7 | Prospero's daughter in The Tempest |
| 39% | HAND | 4 | Unit in the measure of a horse's height |
| 39% | EYE | 3 | Organ in the middle of a Cyclops's forehead |
| 39% | ONATHEME | 8 | Words in the title of a composer's homage |
| 39% | REDDEER | 7 | City in S Alberta, Canada, on a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River |
| 39% | STAPLE | 6 | Dominant crop in the diet of a region's people |
| 38% | MIRANDA | 7 | Moon of Uranus named for Prospero's daughter in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" |
| 38% | MIRANDA | 7 | Prospero's young daughter in The Tempest |
| 38% | TRAGEDY | 7 | In theater, it's the opposite of a comedy |
| 38% | MIRANDA | 7 | Daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's Tempest |
| 38% | AMERICANS | 9 | One of the A's in ADA |
| 38% | ASK | 3 | One of the A's in AMA |
| 38% | RNA | 3 | Molecule in the etymology of a COVID-vaccine-producing company's name |
| 37% | TARTS | 5 | The Queen of Hearts's output, in a nursery rhyme |
| 37% | TUE | 3 | The first of two T's, in a familiar sequence |
| 37% | NET | 3 | It's in the middle of a tennis court |
| 37% | ICECREAM | 8 | It's in the middle of a baked Alaska |
| 37% | NET | 3 | What's in the center of a tennis court |
| 37% | ITSY | 4 | Start of a spider's description, in song |
| 37% | ASSN | 4 | One of the a's in Nascar: Abbr. |
| 37% | AMER | 4 | One of the A's in AAA: Abbr. |
| 37% | PHONETICS | 9 | Description of sounds in a language |
| 37% | UNLIT | 5 | In the midst of a blackout |
| 37% | SOBERLY | 7 | In the manner of a judge |