| 100% | CRYSTALS | 8 | Cave of the __, huge transclucent shards in Mexico |
| 44% | MTIDA | 5 | Site of the Cave of Zeus, in myth: Abbr. |
| 44% | PIANO | 5 | Renzo —, Italian architect; designer of The Shard in London |
| 44% | LOG | 3 | Huge chunk of wood in the forest |
| 43% | OILRIGS | 7 | Structures in the Gulf of Mexico |
| 43% | COCO | 4 | Pixar film set in Mexico and the Land of the Dead |
| 42% | COCO | 4 | 2017 Pixar film set in Mexico and the Land of the Dead |
| 41% | DEER | 4 | Some of the wildlife in the 20,000-year-old paintings in Lascaux Cave |
| 40% | MAYO | 4 | Cinco de ___, festival celebrated in Mexico to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Puebla |
| 40% | COCO | 4 | Pixar's 2017 3D computer-animated film set in Mexico and the Land of the Dead |
| 40% | CLAN | 4 | "The ___ of the Cave Bear" (first novel in Jean Auel's "Earth's Children" series) |
| 39% | PESO | 4 | Piece of currency in Mexico and the Philippines |
| 39% | AYLA | 4 | The Clan of the Cave Bear protagonist whose name means "moonlight" in Turkish |
| 39% | ZAPATEADO | 9 | Dance of Spain or Mexico in which the heels tap out rhythmic patterns |
| 38% | SUSANAMARTINEZ | 14 | In 2010, she became the first woman to be elected governor of New Mexico: 2 wds. |
| 37% | DEI | 3 | Of the, in Venice |
| 37% | GUAYULE | 7 | Bushy shrub in the aster family of Mexico and the southwestern US; a source of latex |
| 37% | SATAN | 5 | Evil-sounding genus of the widemouth blindcat, found in caves in the San Antonio area |
| 37% | MARINUS | 7 | Of the sea, in Latin |
| 36% | LAFITTE | 7 | Jean ___, French pirate who operated in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans in the early 1800s |
| 36% | UTAH | 4 | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ratified by the US in March 1848, saw Mexico ceding this territory to the US |
| 36% | NEOCOSMIC | 9 | Of the universe in its present state |
| 35% | PLATO | 5 | "Allegory of the Cave" philosopher |
| 35% | PLATO | 5 | "Allegory of the Cave" originator |
| 35% | DAY | 3 | If you're in Mexico in November, you may see people celebrating the ___ of the Dead aka Dia de los Muertos (4/5) |
| 35% | MIDST | 5 | In the ___ of |
| 35% | MIDST | 5 | In the __ of |
| 35% | SUWANNEE | 8 | US river rising in the Okefenokee Swamp on the Georgia-Florida border that flows to the Gulf of Mexico |
| 35% | SUWANNEE | 8 | US river rising in the Okefenokee Swamp on the Georgia-Florida border which flows to the Gulf of Mexico |
| 35% | NIPA | 4 | ___ grass, colloquial name of Distichlis palmeri, once thought extinct but which now grows in the Sonoran desert of Mexico |