| 100% | OSCARS | 6 | Annual event viewed live by hundreds of millions of people, with "the" |
| 39% | ROSEPARADE | 10 | Annual event in which floats are decorated with millions of flowers |
| 39% | TOURDEFRANCE | 12 | Annual July sports event with the world's largest live audience |
| 39% | 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 |
| 38% | ETSY | 4 | Site with "millions of people selling the things they love" |
| 37% | TIME | 4 | Magazine with an annual Person of the Year issue |
| 36% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 36% | TSWANA | 6 | One of the official languages of South Africa where it's spoken by about 4 million people |
| 36% | FEARS | 5 | "___ in Solitude," conversational poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with notes of patriotism for the British people |
| 35% | ABOUTDAMNTIME | 13 | Song by Lizzo that was honored with the People's Choice Award for The Song of 2022 (3 wds.) |
| 34% | LONE | 4 | 1994 Live hit with the lyric "And the greatest of teachers won't hesitate / To leave you there, by yourself" |
| 34% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 34% | BFF | 3 | Person with the other half of a heart necklace, maybe |
| 34% | RELIEVER | 8 | Person with the shift after a long one of yours |
| 34% | DEBATE | 6 | Planned September 29, 2020 event at the University of Notre Dame that will be watched by millions |
| 34% | EURASIA | 7 | The majority of people live here |
| 33% | YMCA | 4 | 1978 song by Village People with a popular dance move that involves spelling out the name of the song with arm movements |
| 33% | IDOL | 4 | Person with millions of Instagram followers, say |
| 33% | NCAAWOMENS | 10 | With 40-Across, sport whose annual tournament was won this past Tuesday by the University of Connecticut, for the tenth time: 2 wds. |
| 33% | LAO | 3 | People with a language of the same name |
| 32% | OSCARS | 6 | Annual event held at the Kodak Theater, with "the" |
| 32% | IDEOLOGY | 8 | The set of beliefs that a culture lives by |
| 32% | IDOLS | 5 | People with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 32% | UTAH | 4 | State with the annual Living Traditions Festival |
| 32% | SPAHN | 5 | Hall of Fame pitcher Warren with the most wins by a lefty |
| 32% | BINGONIGHT | 10 | Event with a room full of people making a row |
| 32% | VIRAL | 5 | Like a funny video with millions of views |
| 32% | BROW | 4 | By the sweat of your __; with hard work |
| 32% | ESTATESALES | 11 | Events with lots of late people? |
| 32% | AIRING | 6 | Annual Festivus event, the __ of grievances |