| 100% | EERIE | 5 | Like a wolf's howl in the dead of night |
| 51% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | "__ singing in the dead of night" |
| 49% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | It sang in the dead of night, as per The Beatles |
| 47% | DEMURE | 6 | Like a lot of the attire in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 46% | EERIE | 5 | Like a wolf's howl |
| 46% | EERIE | 5 | Like howls in the night |
| 45% | COEQUALLY | 9 | In a way that's like people of the same rank |
| 45% | AYE | 3 | Word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet that's not in it |
| 45% | TITANIA | 7 | Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 45% | BAYS | 4 | Howls, like a wolf at the moon |
| 44% | ARABIAN | 7 | "___ Nights," collection of folk tales like "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" which was adapted into a video game in 1985 |
| 44% | LIT | 3 | Like a menorah on the eighth night of Hanukkah |
| 44% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of years in a periodical cicada’s life cycle |
| 44% | ICY | 3 | Like a windshield in need of scraping in the winter |
| 44% | CLUTCH | 6 | Like a winning play in the final seconds of overtime |
| 43% | COBWEB | 6 | One of the fairies in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 43% | TITANIA | 7 | Queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 43% | MUSTARDSEED | 11 | One of the fairies in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 43% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 43% | SHINE | 5 | Stand out like a star in the night sky |
| 43% | POTENT | 6 | Strong, like a bet of TEN in the POT? |
| 43% | ALPHA | 5 | The leader in a pack of wolves |
| 43% | PEASEBLOSSOM | 12 | One of the fairies in William Shakespeare stage play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 43% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like a cyclops or some of the Minions in "Despicable Me": Hyph. |
| 43% | SENSES | 6 | "You fill up my ___ / Like a night in a forest" (first line of John Denver's "Annie's Song") |
| 42% | DARKANDSTORMY | 13 | Like the night in a novel-opening cliche |
| 42% | AROAR | 5 | Like crowds in the heat of a match |
| 42% | BLACK | 5 | The color of a raven flying in the night |
| 42% | MOONLIT | 7 | Like the forest in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| 42% | STARRY | 6 | Like the night in a Vincent van Gogh painting |