| 100% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 31% | DINNERTIME | 10 | According to Jacob's Creek, an Australian winemaker, a survey in 2007 found this to be 7:47pm in the UK |
| 31% | ELANA | 5 | ___ Meyers, who in 2015 was part of the first world champion team from the US in women's bobsled |
| 30% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 30% | SLEEP | 5 | According to Nas in "N.Y. State of Mind" this is the cousin of death |
| 30% | FULLHOUSE | 9 | The odds of being dealt this in poker are 693 to 1 |
| 30% | ASHRAM | 6 | In the Mahabharata, it's stated that a youthful Krishna was sent to see Sand?pan? Muni at one of these |
| 29% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 29% | NOID | 4 | Reason to be barred from a bar ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 29% | GREATWALL | 9 | Landmark that, in a way, is a border feature of this puzzle and a hint to what's missing from 10 answers |
| 29% | SAFEST | 6 | In 2019, the German state-owned development bank KfW was the world's this, according to Global Finance magazine. |
| 28% | ROLEMODEL | 9 | A person that is often looked at as someone to follow in the footsteps of : 2 wds. |
| 28% | ATOMS | 5 | There are roughly ten million billion (10^16) of these in a grain of salt |
| 28% | BEZOS | 5 | The world's richest person, with a net worth of over $125 billion |
| 28% | TICKLEMEELMO | 12 | By the end of 1996, one million of this toy was sold in a shopping frenzy |
| 28% | ANT | 3 | Bug that the more than 1 million members of a certain Facebook group pretend to be |
| 28% | JACKIESTILES | 12 | 2016 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first Division I player to score over 1,000 points in a season: 2 wds. |
| 28% | AEA | 3 | According to Apollonius of Rhodes, this was the main city of Colchis, a land on the east coast of what is now the Black Sea |
| 27% | 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" |
| 27% | AIDS | 4 | There are over 1.2 million people in the US who are living with this disease, 1 in 8 of them don't know they have it yet |
| 27% | CORTESE | 7 | Wines made from this grape variety are long known to be favored by restaurants in the port of Genoa |
| 27% | SAND | 4 | You will need to have a 1-inch layer of this grainy beach material in your snow globe terrarium |
| 27% | LOUIS | 5 | ___ Armstrong, trumpeter and "What a Wonderful World" musician who is considered one of the most influential figures in jazz |
| 27% | ROOM | 4 | 2015 thriller movie about escaping captivity that was set largely in one location, a shed that the protagonists needed to escape from |
| 27% | NOISE | 5 | Despite being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, Radiohead still produces this, to many people |
| 27% | IRE | 3 | According to Chaucer the root of this sin is pride |
| 27% | CANADA | 6 | Most of the world's lakes are in this country |
| 27% | NOOL | 4 | According to the Sour Kangaroo, Horton was "the biggest blame fool in the jungle of ___" |
| 27% | LEIS | 4 | May 1 was a day chosen by Don Blanding, then of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, in 1927 for a celebration of these |
| 27% | OYSTER | 6 | The world, according to Pistol, in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |