| 100% | SMALLPOTATOES | 13 | Insignificant in the grand scheme of things |
| 52% | PLOTTERS | 8 | They're involved in the scheme of things |
| 49% | AMID | 4 | In the thick of things |
| 49% | MIDST | 5 | In the thick of things |
| 48% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | *Grand scheme of things |
| 47% | AMID | 4 | Right in the thick of things |
| 46% | ONBUTTONS | 9 | Things in the backs of Macs |
| 46% | THESE | 5 | The things in front of us |
| 45% | UNIONCARDS | 10 | Things in the wallets of many laborers |
| 45% | STAPLE | 6 | Thing in the center of a centerfold |
| 44% | PAGES | 5 | Things turned in “The Turn of the Screw” |
| 44% | AMEBA | 5 | One of the little things in life? |
| 43% | STAIRS | 6 | Below __, the position of servants in grand houses |
| 43% | OPEN | 4 | Word in the names of three of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments |
| 43% | TREE | 4 | Thing hidden in each of the movie names in this puzzle |
| 43% | FAVORITE | 8 | The thing you most prefer in a group of like items |
| 42% | BUNYAN | 6 | Maker of the Grand Canyon, in myth |
| 42% | RED | 3 | Flooder of Grand Forks, N.D., in 1997, the ___ River |
| 42% | KISSANDMAKEUP | 13 | Things linked in the minds of 70's music fans? |
| 42% | ECOLOGIC | 8 | Relating to the relationships of living things in an enviornment |
| 42% | OAR | 3 | Thing seen in the foreground of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" |
| 42% | AUSSIEOPEN | 10 | One of the Grand Slams in tennis, informally |
| 42% | ENS | 3 | Things that come in the middle of dinner? |
| 41% | TVS | 3 | Things found in the back of most N.Y.C. cabs |
| 41% | ABAA | 4 | Rhyme scheme in the last verse of a villanelle |
| 40% | XER | 3 | Any of the “Stranger Things” kids, in brief |
| 40% | EGOT | 4 | The "grand slam" of showbiz awards, in brief |
| 40% | THEBIGBANG | 10 | The mathematics of this theory was one of the things Stephen Hawking was engrossed in |
| 40% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav in 1893 |
| 39% | ENNEAD | 6 | Set of nine persons or things such as the — of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology |