| 100% | WEBBY | 5 | Internet award whose acceptance speeches are limited to five words |
| 55% | ALGORE | 6 | In his Webby Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech (which is limited to five words), he said "Please don't recount this vote" |
| 34% | GREAT | 5 | Word whose letters are used to spell this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 30% | SON | 3 | Word whose letters are aptly found from left to right in "scion" |
| 30% | EVER | 4 | Word whose opposite is formed by attaching an n to the beginning |
| 29% | RAP | 3 | Word whose musical sense was added to Merriam-Webster dictionaries in 1986 |
| 29% | DYLAN | 5 | Nobel laureate who delivered his acceptance speech only 5 days before becoming ineligible to receive the award |
| 28% | SEQUOIA | 7 | What is the only seven-letter word to use all five vowels and Q? |
| 28% | THANK | 5 | Acceptance speech word |
| 28% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 28% | EDSHEERAN | 9 | Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter whose first five solo albums were named after mathematical symbols |
| 28% | MDA | 3 | Org. whose telethon was the first to be viewed globally via the internet in 1998 |
| 28% | ISABELLE | 8 | French actress Adjani who is the only performer to win five César Awards for acting |
| 27% | INTEARS | 7 | How many Oscar acceptance speeches are delivered |
| 27% | SHORT | 5 | "This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is it?" |
| 26% | EIGHTEEN | 8 | Racehorse names are limited to this no. of letters |
| 26% | BRIANWILLIAMS | 13 | NBC news anchor whose words were edited by "The Tonight Show" to sound like a rap: 2 wds. |
| 26% | STICKSBY | 8 | Is loyal to (2 words) |
| 26% | LISP | 4 | Speech impediment whose name is hard to say if you have it |
| 25% | PLAQUE | 6 | Award to be hung |
| 25% | LYRICS | 6 | Words to be sung |
| 25% | PLAQUES | 7 | Awards to be hung |
| 25% | INSTA | 5 | App whose carrousel limit was increased to twenty pics, in 2024 |
| 25% | PENTE | 5 | Go-like game whose name is the Greek word for "five" |
| 25% | RATE | 4 | Award five stars to, say |
| 25% | BRICS | 5 | Group of countries once expected to drive twenty-first-century economic growth, whose name is an acronym of its five members |
| 25% | ANON | 4 | Internet group whose identities are unknown |
| 24% | THELASTPOETS | 12 | Black Nationalist spoken-word collective whose work was a precursor to hip-hop |
| 24% | ONME | 4 | Words that are a treat to hear? |
| 24% | ENDLESS | 7 | Being or seeming to be without limits |