| 100% | HAALAND | 7 | Deb ___, secretary of the interior starting in 2021 |
| 69% | DEB | 3 | Haaland who became secretary of the interior in 2021 |
| 51% | DEB | 3 | Secretary of the Interior Haaland |
| 51% | DOUG | 4 | Secretary of the Interior Burgum |
| 50% | UDALL | 5 | 60's Secretary of the Interior |
| 50% | ICKES | 5 | Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior |
| 50% | DEB | 3 | Former Secretary of the Interior Haaland |
| 48% | DEB | 3 | ___ Haaland, current United States secretary of the interior |
| 47% | CAROL | 5 | Secretary of the Pointy-Haired Boss, in "Dilbert" |
| 45% | EVENSTEVEN | 10 | Secretary of the treasury Mnuchin in a really mellow moment? |
| 44% | MCCARTHY | 8 | Speaker of the House starting in January 2023 |
| 43% | MORN | 4 | Start of the day, in poetry |
| 42% | POWELL | 6 | U.S. secretary of state raised in the Bronx |
| 42% | IRAQWAR | 7 | It started in 2003 with the bombing of Baghdad |
| 42% | NYE | 3 | C.E.O. of the Planetary Society starting in 2010 |
| 42% | ROOKS | 5 | Chess pieces that start in the corners of the board |
| 42% | BILES | 5 | Gymnast named Time's Athlete of the Year in 2021 |
| 42% | PETERHANSEL | 11 | Stephane —, winner of the Dakar Rally cars category in 2021 |
| 42% | SERVE | 5 | The starting hit in a game of tennis |
| 41% | ROOKS | 5 | Chess pieces that start in the four corners of the board |
| 41% | ELON | 4 | Musk who was Time's Person of the Year in 2021 |
| 41% | ROOK | 4 | Chess piece that starts in one of the board's corners |
| 41% | GLASGOW | 7 | Starting city of train in the Great Train Robbery |
| 41% | WHOM | 4 | Pronoun in the starts of many letters |
| 41% | RACE | 4 | The next one of these will start in Paris on September 5th, 2021 and end (hopefully) on November 16th, 2021 at Dakar, Senegal |
| 41% | CMA | 3 | Group that named Luke Combs Entertainer of the Year in 2021 (Abbr.) |
| 41% | IMIT | 4 | Starting words from the tagger in a game of tag |
| 41% | DEER | 4 | Start of a letter in the form of a rebus |
| 41% | OER | 3 | Start of the last line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 40% | PATTILUPONE | 11 | Actress in the 2021 Broadway revival of "Company" |