| 100% | POILU | 5 | Lazare Ponticelli (1897-2008) is recognized by France as being the last of these soldiers from WWI |
| 40% | NEA | 3 | Mary Anne Carter was appointed last year by the President as chairperson of this agency |
| 35% | SPREADTHEWEALTH | 15 | Be generous with one's good fortune, as depicted by the movement of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 35% | TAN | 3 | 2008 opera "The Bonesetter's Daughter" by Stewart Wallace was an adaption of the book by this author Amy ___ |
| 34% | QUEEN | 5 | Zewditu was the last of these in Ethiopia, until 1930 |
| 33% | NOYADE | 6 | Execution by drowning as carried out during the Reign of Terror at Nantes, France, from 1793-94 |
| 33% | OKRA | 4 | Mucilage from this vegetable of the Deep South is currently under development as a biodegradable food packaging |
| 33% | ASPEN | 5 | The world's largest organism by mass, known as Pando, is this type of tree |
| 33% | BIAFRA | 6 | Medecins Sans Frontieres arose from the humanitarian disaster generated by this secessionist state of the late 60's |
| 33% | TIKTOK | 6 | Charli D'Amelio, with over 43 million followers, has been labelled by the NYT as the "reigning queen" of this social media service |
| 33% | CORTESE | 7 | Wines made from this grape variety are long known to be favored by restaurants in the port of Genoa |
| 32% | MISSISSIPPIRIVER | 16 | It was known by the Algonquin as the "Father of Waters" |
| 32% | BYRON | 5 | The phrase "Truth is stranger than fiction" originated from Canto XIV of a poem of "immoral content" by this author |
| 32% | HAMMER | 6 | Type of baggy pants from the '90s that was popularized by the rapper known for "U Can't Touch This" |
| 32% | KLONDIKE | 8 | This region was the center of the 1897 gold rush |
| 31% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic sci-fi collection whose title should not be construed as any sort of statement from me, the human author of this puzzle |
| 31% | OCTOBER | 7 | The last day of this month is Halloween |
| 31% | MUCOUS | 6 | The texture of a snail is from this |
| 31% | NAWAB | 5 | The last of these in Bahawalpur was Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V Abbasi, who reigned until 1956 |
| 31% | FATAH | 5 | Mahmoud Abbas is the chairman of this group, formerly known as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement |
| 31% | TOYSTORY | 8 | The 3rd film of this animated series is from 2010 |
| 31% | NEWYORK | 7 | This city is seen as the birthplace of hip hop |
| 30% | POPES | 5 | 10 featured last names in this puzzle are also the names of these |
| 30% | NOID | 4 | Reason to be barred from a bar ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 30% | DDAY | 4 | Last year was the 75th anniversary of this notable WWII event |
| 30% | ION | 3 | The last of these Saturn passenger cars was built in March 2007 at GM's Spring Hill, TN, assembly plant |
| 30% | OCTOBER | 7 | Halloween is on the last day of this month |
| 30% | WARTHOG | 7 | Pumbaa from The Lion King is one of these |
| 30% | MOSQUITO | 8 | Malaria is transmitted by the bite of this insect |
| 30% | THEMANSION | 10 | 1959 novel by William Faulkner that is the last of the trilogy on the Snopes family: 2 wds. |