| 100% | BEER | 4 | Drink that's the subject of several rules in the Code of Hammurabi |
| 48% | COCACOLA | 8 | Soft drink that's the subject of an Atlanta museum: Hyph. |
| 48% | SPAM | 4 | Food that's the subject of a museum in Austin, Minn. |
| 48% | AMBERGRIS | 9 | Secretion that's the subject of a chapter in Moby-Dick |
| 46% | ENRON | 5 | Company that's the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
| 44% | SODA | 4 | Drink that's called "pop" in some parts of the country |
| 41% | LYNDON | 6 | Johnson that's the subject of a museum at the University of Texas |
| 41% | ELSA | 4 | Lion that was the subject of the book "Born Free" and that is buried in Kenya's Meru National Park |
| 41% | NCAA | 4 | Org. that was the subject of a 2021 Supreme Court antitrust ruling |
| 40% | TEA | 3 | Drink that's the focus of a Japanese ceremony |
| 40% | SEATTLE | 7 | City that's the subject of this puzzle |
| 40% | NOAHSARK | 8 | Craft that's the subject of this puzzle |
| 40% | NCAA | 4 | Group that's the subject of "bracketology": Abbr. |
| 40% | MALARIA | 7 | Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902) |
| 39% | NSA | 3 | Org. that's the subject of "The Puzzle Palace" |
| 39% | ABEVIGODA | 9 | Actor who was the subject of several mistaken death reports before his actual death in 2016 |
| 39% | KATRINA | 7 | Hurricane that was the subject of 2006's "When the Levees Broke" |
| 39% | EOM | 3 | Abbr. in the subject of an e-mail that has no body |
| 39% | NARC | 4 | Type of cop that's the subject of "Training Day" |
| 39% | ASPEN | 5 | Tree that's the name of a city in Colorado |
| 39% | ANGELFALLS | 10 | Venezuela landmark that's the tallest of its kind in the world (3,212 feet) |
| 38% | NOUN | 4 | Part of speech that's the subject of a sentence, typically |
| 38% | AREA | 4 | ___ 51 (Nevada military site that's the subject of conspiracy theories) |
| 38% | BLM | 3 | Social movement that's the subject of the TV documentary Stay Woke |
| 38% | NOLA | 4 | City that's the subject of the book Musical Gumbo, for short |
| 38% | IKEA | 4 | Swedish store that's the subject of the book "Leading by Design" |
| 38% | EVOLUTION | 9 | Biology topic that's the subject of some Neil deGrasse Tyson debates |
| 38% | OED | 3 | Ref. that's the subject of the book The Professor and the Madman |
| 38% | KATRINA | 7 | Hurricane that's the subject of the 2006 documentary "When the Levees Broke" |
| 38% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's the subject of the Wiz Khalifa song "Playful 4 Life" |