| 100% | CICADA | 6 | 17-year locust |
| 92% | CICADAS | 7 | 17-year locusts, e.g. |
| 71% | CICADAS | 7 | Animals also called "17-year locusts" |
| 67% | CICADAS | 7 | Insects that may emerge after 17 years |
| 67% | CICADA | 6 | Bug that sometimes spends 17 years underground |
| 67% | RRATED | 6 | For audiences 17 years or older: Hyph. |
| 67% | CICADA | 6 | Insect that may live for 17 years |
| 65% | VIKINGS | 7 | Team coached by Bud Grant for 17 years |
| 65% | CICADAS | 7 | Noisy insects that might emerge every 17 years |
| 61% | FISCHER | 7 | Bobby who won 4th chess title at 17 years old |
| 58% | CICADAS | 7 | 17-year insects |
| 57% | MINOR | 5 | 17-year-old, legally |
| 55% | TEEN | 4 | 17-year-old, for example |
| 55% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Author who took 17 years to publish a sequel to "The Hobbit": 4 wds. |
| 55% | MAY | 3 | Month in 2021 when the "Friends" reunion screened 17 years after the show ended |
| 53% | MALALA | 6 | 17-year-old Peace Nobelist Yousafzai |
| 51% | LINDSAYLOHAN | 12 | "Mean Girls" actress who hosted "Saturday Night Live" when she was 17 years old: 2 wds. |
| 50% | ART | 3 | Surprising discovery at the Lascaux cave that's 17,000 years old |
| 50% | SASHA | 5 | 17-year-old daughter of Barack and Michelle |
| 49% | CICADAS | 7 | Insects on a 17-year cycle |
| 49% | USMA | 4 | Sch. whose candidates must be unmarried and between 17 and 22 years old |
| 48% | PELE | 4 | 17-year-old sensation at the 1958 World Cup |
| 47% | CICADAS | 7 | Insects with a 17-year life cycle |
| 47% | CICADA | 6 | Insect with a 17-year life cycle |
| 46% | IKEA | 4 | Retail giant founded by a 17-year-old |
| 46% | CAL | 3 | Ripken with a 17-year consecutive game streak |
| 46% | IKEA | 4 | Company founded by a 17-year-old Swede |
| 46% | NAT | 3 | Ryan Zimmerman, for his entire 17-year career |
| 44% | KIM | 3 | "Talk snow sports, talk Chloe ___," professional snowboarder who won an Olympic gold medal when she was just 17 years old |
| 44% | ARIANAGRANDE | 12 | 17-Across and 39-Across singer who was named Billboard's 2018 Woman of the Year (2 wds.) |