| 100% | AMBERGRIS | 9 | “An essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!” per “Moby-Dick” |
| 36% | LEU | 3 | Coin found in Tirasol that has the horn of an aurochs and a female figure of the moon on it |
| 36% | SIKH | 4 | A member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th century |
| 35% | LONGU | 5 | What's found in the center of a prune? |
| 34% | ATM | 3 | It might be found in the corner of a corner store |
| 34% | RETURNADDRESS | 13 | It's often found in the upper-left corner of an envelope |
| 33% | AHAB | 4 | Obsessed ship captain hunting for a whale called Moby Dick, in an 1851 novel |
| 33% | JONAH | 5 | He spent three days in the belly of a whale |
| 33% | TEA | 3 | An indispensable ingredient in the elixir of life, per Lao-tzu |
| 32% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 32% | ORCA | 4 | Whale found in every one of the world's oceans |
| 32% | IONA | 4 | Island in the Inner Hebrides; site of an abbey founded by St Columba |
| 32% | ATLAS | 5 | A book in which you find the map of the world |
| 32% | VENTRICLE | 9 | A cavity in an organ; the heart has two of them |
| 31% | SLIM | 4 | Like the odds of finding a needle in a haystack |
| 31% | OLCOTT | 6 | Henry Steel —, a founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875 |
| 31% | HOXHA | 5 | Enver —, a founder of the Albanian Communist party in 1941 |
| 31% | GRAMSCI | 7 | Antonio —, a founder of the Italian Communist Party in 1921 |
| 31% | HOXHA | 5 | Enver -, a founder of the Albanian Communist party in 1941 |
| 31% | CARMELITE | 9 | In the Roman Catholic Church, a member of an order of mendicant friars founded in the 12th century |
| 31% | AMBERGRIS | 9 | Secretion that's the subject of a chapter in Moby-Dick |
| 31% | AMAP | 4 | "You will find ___ of the world in an Atlas": 2 wds. |
| 30% | STAGEFRIGHT | 11 | Nervousness in front of an audience, or a description of the starred answers |
| 30% | REREDOS | 7 | Screen or wall decoration at the back of an altar in a church |
| 30% | STUNTMAN | 8 | Daredevil who might take the place of an actor in a dangerous scene |
| 30% | EMMY | 4 | Statuette of a winged woman holding an atom awarded annually in the US for outstanding work in television |
| 30% | EMMY | 4 | Statuette of a winged woman holding an atom, awarded annually in the US for outstanding work in television |
| 30% | SNOUTS | 6 | Found in the middle of pigs' faces |
| 30% | DISCONTENT | 10 | "The first step in the progress of a man or a nation," per Oscar Wilde |
| 30% | SIKH | 4 | Member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th-century |