| 100% | FLEETS | 6 | Groups of ships that are under the same ownership |
| 44% | SYNDICATE | 9 | Group of newspapers under the same owner |
| 44% | APTS | 4 | Small units that are usually under the supervision of the super |
| 42% | METRO | 5 | "___ 2033," video game that was inspired by Dmitry Glukhovsky novel of the same title |
| 42% | BROTHER | 7 | "Big ___," television reality franchise that is based on the Dutch show of the same name |
| 42% | AMAZON | 6 | ___ River, waterbody in South America that is central to a rainforest of the same name |
| 41% | NATO | 4 | Group that Finland and Sweden would be the 31st and 32nd members of: Abbr. |
| 41% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | State of having two sides that are not the same |
| 41% | ACT | 3 | "Sister ___," 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg that was adapted into a stage musical of the same name |
| 40% | REM | 3 | Georgia group that was one of the first alternative rock bands |
| 40% | NERD | 4 | Someone “toiling away under the delusion that overt displays of precocity are tolerable,” per the writer Rosa Lyster |
| 40% | EAGLE | 5 | ___ Island, island in Antarctica that is volcanic in origin and part of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group |
| 40% | NIAGARA | 7 | ___ Falls, group of waterfalls in the USA that was designated as a Natural Wonder of the World by CNN |
| 40% | ALIVE | 5 | "Luckiest Girl ___," 2015 novel by Jessica Knoll that was adapted into 2022 mystery thriller movie of the same name |
| 40% | RUINS | 5 | "Adam ___ Everything," TV show starring Adam Conover that is based on a CollegeHumor web series of the same name |
| 40% | TINY | 4 | "___ Beautiful Things," book by Cheryl Strayed that was adapted into a miniseries of the same name starring Kathryn Hahn |
| 40% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 39% | MINGDYNASTY | 11 | Group that was in power when the best-preserved form of this puzzle's landmark was built |
| 39% | SINKING | 7 | A ship that is going under |
| 39% | HOCUS | 5 | "___ Pocus 2," 2022 film starring Sarah Jessica Parker that is a sequel to the 1993 film of the same name |
| 39% | GOAL | 4 | "Next ___ Wins," sports comedy film directed by Taika Waititi that is based on a 2014 documentary of the same name |
| 39% | ANT | 3 | Bug that the more than 1 million members of a certain Facebook group pretend to be |
| 39% | LIKEAPRAYER | 11 | 1989 pop rock song by Madonna that is a part of her fourth studio album of the same name: 3 wds. |
| 39% | ALIENS | 6 | 80's sci-fi thriller film starring Sigourney Weaver that is a sequel to a horror film of the same name |
| 38% | HANSON | 6 | Group that made up the word "MMMBop" in a 1997 song of the same name |
| 38% | WHY | 3 | TV series "13 Reasons ___" with Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford that is based on Jay Asher's novel of the same name |
| 38% | BIGLITTLELIES | 13 | TV series with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman that is based on Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name: 3 wds. |
| 38% | HERD | 4 | Group of animals of the same kind |
| 38% | TEAM | 4 | Group of contestants on the same side |
| 38% | TEAM | 4 | Group of players on the same side |