| 100% | ARSENIC | 7 | Botallack Mine, now part of a Cornwall and West Devon World Heritage site, averaged 4 tons of this per month in the 1880s |
| 31% | ANGEL | 5 | ___ Falls, waterfall that is part of the Canaima National Park which is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Venezuela |
| 29% | DOME | 4 | ___ of the Rock, iconic shrine in Jerusalem which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| 29% | RAPGOD | 6 | Eminem song which holds the world record for most words in a hit single with an average of 4.28 words per second: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ALE | 3 | The "tan" part of a "black and tan," in a tavern |
| 27% | POTALAPALACE | 12 | Iconic dzong fortress in the city of Lhasa which is a World Heritage Site since 1994: 2 wds. |
| 27% | MILAN | 5 | I'm a city in Italy and my nickname is "Fashion Capital of the World" |
| 26% | AIRMAN | 6 | Part of a Tuskegee-trained force in the Second World War |
| 26% | PETRA | 5 | UNESCO World Heritage Site that appears in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” |
| 25% | IVORY | 5 | The Wildlife Conservation Society crushed a ton of this in Times Square in 2015 |
| 25% | ALAMO | 5 | The —, mission in San Antonio, Texas; site of a siege and massacre in 1836 |
| 25% | RIO | 3 | Site of the largest carnival in the world, per Guinness |
| 25% | SOLAR | 5 | The sun and planets are a part of this system |
| 25% | SOLAR | 5 | The sun and the planets are a part of this system |
| 25% | DISAPPEARINGACT | 15 | Part of a magic show, and the key to understanding this puzzle's one-word clues |
| 25% | UVA | 3 | Campus home of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in brief |
| 25% | MASADA | 6 | Ancient mountaintop fortress overlooking the Dead Sea declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001 |
| 25% | QUITO | 5 | Western Hemisphere capital chosen as one of the twelve inaugural World Heritage sites in 1978 |
| 24% | LOOPDELOOPS | 11 | Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 24% | GLENCOE | 7 | Site in Scotland of a 1692 massacre of the MacDonalds by the Campbells and English troops |
| 24% | CENTERSTAGE | 11 | Limelight site, and a hint to the positions of this puzzle's circled names |
| 24% | CLAUDIA | 7 | Actress ___ Cardinale of "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "The Pink Panther" |
| 24% | LAS | 3 | In Deck the Halls, you sing a lot of Fas and these |
| 24% | ANNPRESTON | 10 | American physician and activist who was the first female dean of a medical school in the world: 2 wds. |
| 24% | NARRATION | 9 | Part of a "Sex and the City" script |
| 23% | AJLANGER | 8 | "My So-Called Life" actress who now holds the title Countess of Devon and lives in an English castle: 3 wds. |
| 23% | FLIGHT | 6 | "The ___ of the Phoenix," 1965 film starring James Stewart ... or part of a New Year's wish highlighted in this puzzle |
| 23% | ELLIS | 5 | Kendall ___, sprinter who was a part of the team who set the world record for distance medley relay in 2022 |
| 23% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |
| 23% | ARAPAHO | 7 | Member of a Native American people of the Plains now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming |