| 100% | SURPRISE | 8 | An event where the main person is kept in the dark about the party |
| 37% | CINEMA | 6 | Its patrons are usually kept in the dark |
| 37% | WEDDING | 7 | An event where people are married |
| 36% | EYEMASKS | 8 | They keep people in the dark |
| 35% | AFTERHOURS | 10 | Where "house party" is in the dictionary? |
| 35% | HOME | 4 | Where the heart is, in an expression |
| 35% | ARK | 3 | Where the Torah is kept in a synagogue |
| 35% | TIBETANS | 8 | People who live in the same region where the Dalai Lama was born |
| 34% | QUIVER | 6 | The pouch in which an archer's arrows are kept |
| 34% | DONT | 4 | "___ Be Afraid of the Dark," 2010 horror movie where monsters lurk in the fireplace |
| 33% | UNLIT | 5 | Kept in the dark |
| 33% | ELIOTNESS | 9 | Person that the main atrium in the ATF headquarters building is named for |
| 33% | OSLO | 4 | Capital where the 2021 film “The Worst Person in the World” is set |
| 33% | LUAU | 4 | Party where food is often cooked in an imu |
| 33% | BAR | 3 | Where a person in charge is making the rounds? |
| 33% | HASNOCLUE | 9 | Is totally in the dark |
| 32% | VEEP | 4 | Sitcom in which the main character's political party is never identified |
| 32% | MOMA | 4 | Gallery where the Women Artists Visibility Event (WAVE) was held in 1984 |
| 32% | NONETHEWISER | 12 | In the dark about something nefarious |
| 32% | THRU | 4 | Where Dolly Parton was Travelin' when she got an 2005 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song in the movie "Transamerica" |
| 32% | LUGE | 4 | World champion downhill event where the best US finishes were second places by Myler and Kennedy in 1992 |
| 32% | OPERA | 5 | "___ in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian": H. L. Mencken |
| 32% | ALERTTO | 7 | Not in the dark about |
| 32% | UPON | 4 | Not in the dark about |
| 32% | DRAFT | 5 | NBA ___, annual event where new players are selected for various teams in the league |
| 31% | XGAMES | 6 | 2013 competition where Mitchie Brusco became the first person to land a 1080 at in the Big Air event |
| 31% | DIAMONDJIMBRADY | 15 | Tycoon who was reputedly the first person in New York City to own an automobile |
| 31% | HAVENOCLUE | 10 | Be in the dark |
| 31% | SALTY | 5 | Making a comeback is this "sodium-rich" slangy term for an annoyed person that originated in the late 1930's |
| 31% | LEG | 3 | Where the femur and tibia are in the body |