| 100% | ANNUAL | 6 | Describes a yearly event like a festival |
| 46% | MUDDDELINEATES | 14 | Roger describes a news event? |
| 45% | ECLIPTIC | 8 | Like a solar event |
| 45% | EARTHSHATTERING | 15 | Like a momentous event |
| 44% | DENDRITIC | 9 | Describes branching like a tree |
| 44% | POSH | 4 | Like a red-carpet event |
| 44% | DRESSY | 6 | Like a black-tie event |
| 44% | COLDFEET | 8 | Nerves before a big event, like a wedding |
| 43% | INAID | 5 | Like a charity event: 2 wds. |
| 43% | DRESSY | 6 | Like clothes at a formal event |
| 43% | DATABLE | 7 | Like events on a time line |
| 43% | SPATULATE | 9 | Describes tools shaped like a rice paddle |
| 42% | REENACTS | 8 | Stages, like a historical event |
| 42% | SMUG | 4 | Like a face some might describe as punchable |
| 42% | SCORELESS | 9 | Like a sporting event that ends 0-0 |
| 42% | RIG | 3 | Illegally influence, like a sporting event |
| 40% | RIG | 3 | Predetermine the outcome of, like a sporting event |
| 40% | ADJECTIVE | 9 | A describing word in grammar, like happy or hungry |
| 40% | BIGDEAL | 7 | Sounds like handing out cards is a major event? |
| 38% | MOTH | 4 | Like a ___ to a flame, phrase used to describe irresistible attraction despite danger |
| 38% | NEWSY | 5 | Like a current-events podcast |
| 38% | BYRONIC | 7 | Like moody Romantic heroes, as first described in the works of a British lord |
| 36% | NEVER | 5 | "Lightning ___ strikes the same place twice," idiom with a natural phenomenon that is used to describe a rare event |
| 35% | FACE | 4 | "___ like thunder," British idiom with a natural phenomenon that is used to describe a furious person |
| 34% | CROSSOVER | 9 | Adjective describing a performer like 30-Across who's successful singing pop as well as classical music |
| 34% | WACKYWEDNESDAY | 14 | Seuss book about a weekly period with strange events, like an earthworm chasing a bird |
| 33% | ONO | 3 | Lennon reportedly described her as looking like "a bloke in drag" |
| 33% | PART | 4 | Like a --> |
| 33% | ENSUITE | 7 | Describes a bathroom attached to a bedroom |
| 33% | CRESTED | 7 | Describes a honeycreeper bird and a newt |