| 100% | ILLMATIC | 8 | Best rap album of the nineteen-nineties, according to Complex |
| 38% | DOECHII | 7 | Winner of the 2025 Best Rap Album Grammy for her mixtape "Alligator Bites Never Heal" |
| 37% | NAS | 3 | Winner of the 2021 Grammy for Best Rap Album for "King's Disease" |
| 37% | BEASTIEBOYS | 11 | Rap group with the classic 1986 album "Licensed to Ill" … or a description of 17-, 24-, 48- and 57-Across? |
| 37% | ADITI | 5 | Mother of the gods, according to Vedas |
| 37% | GAB | 3 | Gift of the ___ (ability to talk well) |
| 37% | GAB | 3 | Gift of the ___ (ability to speak well) |
| 36% | IRE | 3 | According to Chaucer the root of this sin is pride |
| 36% | CREATION | 8 | Making of the world according to the Bible |
| 36% | ARP | 3 | "Constellation According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 36% | ESAU | 4 | "A man of the field," according to Genesis |
| 36% | FAIREST | 7 | Like Aphrodite, according to the Judgment of Paris |
| 36% | HEAL | 4 | The album has to get better |
| 36% | EATALONE | 8 | What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller |
| 36% | RINGSIDESWEAT | 13 | Drawback of the best place to watch the fight? |
| 36% | EGO | 3 | One of the three personality parts, according to Freud |
| 36% | SOMBER | 6 | Debut album of Shadows Fall, __ Eyes to the Sky |
| 35% | HUMMINGBIRD | 11 | One of the "dumbest dumb animals," according to 60-Across |
| 35% | ALI | 3 | Sportsman of the Century, according to "Sports Illustrated" in 1999 |
| 35% | ASSET | 5 | Possession of the good kind, as opposed to a liability |
| 35% | RIOT | 4 | "The language of the unheard," according to MLK |
| 35% | APT | 3 | Well-suited to the occasion (anagram of "pat") |
| 35% | RETAIL | 6 | Sale of goods to the public |
| 35% | GRAMMY | 6 | Award won by "DAMN." in the category of Best Rap Album |
| 35% | INSECTS | 7 | About 80% of the world's species, according to the Smithsonian |
| 35% | ARP | 3 | "Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 35% | NOOSE | 5 | The loop it's best to be out of |
| 34% | EMINEM | 6 | Winner of six Best Rap Album Grammys |
| 34% | TRANSIT | 7 | The carrying of goods from one place to another |
| 34% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |