| 100% | SUDAN | 5 | African country featured in Dave Egger's "What Is the What" |
| 45% | GHANA | 5 | African country featured in Yaa Gyasi’s novel “Homegoing” |
| 44% | PERU | 4 | Country located in what was once the Inca Empire |
| 43% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 42% | BIRTHYEAR | 9 | What the number in brackets is for the people featured in this puzzle |
| 41% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 41% | ANOTHERROUND | 12 | Best International Feature Oscar winner in 2021 ... and what's been added to the starred clues' answers |
| 40% | ITALY | 5 | One of the countries featured in Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love" |
| 40% | HIQ | 3 | What is the oldest academic quiz competition in the U.S. (since 1948)? |
| 39% | DENMARK | 7 | This country's flag is the oldest in the world |
| 39% | CAR | 3 | What the title character in Stephen King's "Christine" is |
| 39% | RUNS | 4 | What baseball's Ronald Acuña Jr. was the 2023 leader in |
| 39% | GOO | 3 | What oobleck is, in Dr. Seuss's "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" |
| 39% | HUNGARY | 7 | Country in which the Rubik's cube was invented |
| 38% | MOOSE | 5 | What Rocky the Flying Squirrel's friend Bullwinkle is, in old cartoons |
| 38% | TOURISTS | 8 | The —, rock band featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart whose eponymous debut album was released in 1979 |
| 38% | ALGERIA | 7 | North African country featuring the Sahara |
| 38% | PAPERBAG | 8 | What was "on my knee" in "Back in the U.S.S.R." |
| 38% | HEN | 3 | What a chick's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 38% | DOE | 3 | What a fawn's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 38% | EWE | 3 | What a lamb's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 38% | SOW | 3 | What a piglet's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 38% | MARE | 4 | What a colt's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 38% | SEALED | 6 | What the Go-Go's lips are in a 1981 song |
| 37% | TENDER | 6 | What The Night is in Fitzgerald's 1934 novel |
| 37% | DOLL | 4 | What Chucky is, in the "Child's Play" movies |
| 37% | ENID | 4 | City in what was the Cherokee Strip |
| 37% | TWOCENTS | 8 | In the US, what one's opinion is said to be worth |
| 37% | PROSHOP | 7 | What might be in trouble if it's out of the woods? |
| 37% | CANADA | 6 | Most of the world's lakes are in this country |