| 100% | ABSIT | 5 | Formal permission to be away from school, in Britain |
| 86% | ABSIT | 5 | Formal permission to be away from university, in Britain |
| 39% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | ___ Tree, gift sent annually from Norway to Britain that is erected in London's Trafalgar Square every December |
| 38% | AGESIX | 6 | Time for kids to be in school |
| 38% | ISOLATION | 9 | To be separated from everyone else is to be in __ |
| 37% | TIME | 4 | (2/3) "What ___ Is It?" opening number from Disney's "High School Musical 2" in which the characters look forward to summer |
| 36% | PTAS | 4 | Formal organizations to facilitate parental participation in school: Abbr. |
| 36% | ACC | 3 | Schools from Ky. and In. are in it, surprisingly |
| 35% | IVYLEAGUE | 9 | Seven of the schools in this group were established prior to 1770 |
| 35% | TRUANCY | 7 | Act of being absent from school without permission |
| 35% | WHATHO | 6 | Bertie Wooster expression thought to be derived in part from Beowulf’s “hwæt” |
| 35% | ALLERGY | 7 | Sneezing in the spring is from an __ to pollen |
| 34% | MATH | 4 | School subject in which students might be asked to solve for x |
| 34% | ELI | 3 | Actor Wallach who was in movies from 1956 to 2010 |
| 34% | GARLIC | 6 | Vampires are supposed to keep away from this |
| 34% | ARTISTICLICENSE | 15 | Permission to be creative? |
| 34% | WORKLOAD | 8 | How busy you are in your job from day to day |
| 34% | ELAL | 4 | Its inaugural flight, in 1948, was from Geneva to Tel Aviv |
| 33% | REDSKELTON | 10 | Comedian who got an Honorary Doctorate (said to be in "Foolology") from Ball State: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SON | 3 | Word whose letters are aptly found from left to right in "scion" |
| 33% | ETON | 4 | Prep school in Britain |
| 33% | ETON | 4 | Boys’ school in Britain |
| 32% | SNOW | 4 | In old movies, it was made using everything from marble dust to salt and painted cornflakes |
| 32% | BRB | 3 | "I need to step away from the conversation for a second," in a text |
| 32% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school from which the first Internet transmission was sent, in 1969: Abbr. |
| 32% | RITE | 4 | Learning to read and w___ is one of the first things taught in school |
| 32% | RAMS | 4 | Los Angeles NFL team that was based in St. Louis from 1995 to 2015 |
| 32% | CERES | 5 | It was upgraded from an asteroid to a dwarf planet in 2006 |
| 32% | OAR | 3 | It may be used to get away from a bank |
| 32% | ELLIS | 5 | Ruth —, last woman to be executed in Britain portrayed by Miranda Richardson in 1985 biopic Dance with a Stranger |