| 100% | IOC | 3 | Gp. scheduled to convene in Tokyo in 2020 |
| 46% | OLYMPICS | 8 | Sporting event scheduled for 2020 in Tokyo, with "the" |
| 42% | DUE | 3 | Scheduled to come in |
| 40% | KARATE | 6 | Sport making its Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2020 |
| 40% | GINZA | 5 | Place to shop in Tokyo |
| 39% | OLYMPICFLAG | 11 | *It'll wave over Tokyo in 2020 |
| 39% | DUE | 3 | Scheduled to be turned in |
| 38% | VIRTUALCINEMAS | 14 | Platforms designed to release new films in 2020 |
| 37% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | He sold his music to Universal for $300m in 2020 |
| 36% | TIL | 3 | Up to, in scheduling |
| 36% | BRAGG | 5 | Fort ___, North Carolina site subject to a renaming debate in 2020 |
| 36% | BUBBAWALLACE | 12 | Driver who successfully lobbied Nascar to ban Confederate flags in 2020 |
| 36% | NASA | 4 | Gp. that plans to initiate Artemis 2 in 2023 |
| 36% | NOMAD | 5 | Lead-in to "land" in a hit 2020 film |
| 36% | HOST | 4 | Tokyo, to the 2020 Olympics |
| 35% | OED | 3 | “Awesomesauce” was added to it in 2020: Abbr. |
| 35% | NED | 3 | "Earth to ___" (Disney+ series that premiered in 2020) |
| 34% | LEVY | 4 | Actor Eugene ___ of "Schitt's Creek," scheduled to show on Fox in the fall |
| 34% | BMX | 3 | Vehicle to be used freestyle in the 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 34% | DATA | 4 | Lieutenant Commander with a positronic brain scheduled to return in January in "Star Trek: Picard" on CBS All Access |
| 34% | IOC | 3 | Org. in charge of Tokyo 2020 |
| 33% | DIETSEVENUP | 11 | Beverage rebranded to include "Zero Sugar" in its name in 2020 |
| 33% | RAIDERS | 7 | NFL team that moved from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020 |
| 33% | JAPAN | 5 | Tokyo's country that has hosted the Summer Olympics twice, in 1964 and 2020 |
| 33% | WAP | 3 | 2020 No. 1 hit whose title acronym is compared to “macaroni in a pot” |
| 33% | APR | 3 | Month when the Oscars are scheduled to be awarded in 2021 (Abbr.) |
| 33% | SEGA | 4 | Company based in Tokyo that is about to let you download "Humankind" |
| 32% | RAYS | 4 | Losers to the Dodgers in the 2020 World Series |
| 31% | PATRICK | 7 | With 38-Across, second African American quarterback to be named 44-Across, in 2020 |
| 31% | COPS | 4 | 32-season reality show canceled in response to 2020 protests |