| 100% | SATURNALIA | 10 | Festival that the poet Catullus called “the best of days” |
| 47% | CANTFEELMYFACE | 14 | The Weeknd hit that Rolling Stone called the best song of 2015: 4 wds. |
| 46% | HANUKKAH | 8 | Jewish holiday observed for eight nights and days also called the Festival of Lights |
| 44% | ROOTS | 5 | 1976 best seller that opens "four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia" |
| 41% | DUST | 4 | "___ of Snow," Robert Frost poem on finding joy in little things, like light snowfall that brightens the poet's day |
| 41% | HANUKKAH | 8 | December celebration called the Festival of Lights |
| 40% | HANUKKAH | 8 | Jewish festival also called the Festival of Lights |
| 40% | LESBOS | 6 | Aegean spot called the "Island of the Poets" |
| 40% | DAYS | 4 | "... those were the best ___ of my life..." |
| 39% | UTNEREADER | 10 | Publication that once branded itself as "the best of the alternative press" |
| 39% | SEWARD | 6 | Anna __, 18th-/19th-century poet called the Swan of Lichfield |
| 39% | INFANT | 6 | Something that often shows up at the end of Labor Day |
| 38% | EIDALADHA | 9 | Muslim festival that precedes the Tashreeq days |
| 38% | CHOPIN | 6 | Composer called "The Poet of the Piano" |
| 38% | CATS | 4 | 2019 movie musical that The Guardian called a "dreadful hairball of woe" |
| 38% | LOIN | 4 | That part of the lower back also called the lumbus |
| 38% | HAS | 3 | "This ___ been the best day of my life!" |
| 38% | BRUNEI | 6 | Country that calls itself the "Abode of Peace" |
| 38% | TACOENO | 7 | ... Looking back on it, the best part of that game was when composer Brian gave you a Tex-Mex treat. That's why we called him ___.
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| 38% | EID | 3 | Annual Islamic festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan |
| 38% | YOMKIPPUR | 9 | Annual period of fasting for Jewish people also called the Day of Atonement |
| 38% | WREN | 4 | Short-winged garden songbird that's called the "king of birds" in Europe |
| 38% | FOR | 3 | Word that comes before Dummies in the titles of well over 300 books |
| 37% | HOLI | 4 | Festival of colors in Hinduism that celebrates the arrival of spring |
| 37% | KWANZAA | 7 | Holiday festival that starts the day after 132-Across |
| 37% | DRIVINGMISSDAISY | 16 | "Floral" film that was the Best Picture of 1989 |
| 37% | SWEETSIXTEEN | 12 | Part of a bat that produces the best contact |
| 37% | LUKE | 4 | Gospel that includes the parable of the good Samaritan |
| 37% | ECOL | 4 | Science that's the focus of Earth Day: Abbr. |
| 37% | SAFE | 4 | Umpire's call that's the opposite of "Out!" |