| 100% | HINDU | 5 | Like over 80% of India's population, in terms of religion |
| 46% | WARM | 4 | Like freshly-baked bread, in terms of temperature |
| 44% | HONSHU | 6 | Island that's home to over 80% of Japan's population |
| 43% | TEXAS | 5 | Second-largest US state in terms of both size and population |
| 42% | SLOW | 4 | Like molasses, in terms of speed |
| 42% | ARID | 4 | Like much of the Southwest, in terms of climate |
| 42% | SLOW | 4 | Like a tortoise, in terms of speed |
| 42% | THIN | 4 | Like a wafer, in terms of thickness |
| 42% | ARID | 4 | Like the Sahara, in terms of climate |
| 41% | WARM | 4 | Like cookies fresh from the oven, in terms of temperature |
| 41% | TALL | 4 | Like many NBA players in terms of height |
| 41% | AUSTRIAN | 8 | Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, in terms of his birthplace |
| 41% | WELSH | 5 | Like actors Jonathan Pryce and Richard Burton, in terms of nationality |
| 41% | ARID | 4 | Like the Sahara or Gobi in terms of weather |
| 40% | MAHATMA | 7 | Term of respect in India |
| 40% | TORONTO | 7 | Largest city in Canada in terms of population |
| 40% | JAVA | 4 | Where over half of Indonesia’s population lives |
| 40% | BABU | 4 | Term of respect in India, historically |
| 39% | REALLOOKER | 10 | This clue's 110-Across, in terms of attractiveness |
| 39% | SAHIB | 5 | Historical term of respect in India |
| 38% | RED | 3 | Like the hair of 1-2% of the world's population |
| 38% | EVEN | 4 | Like the sums of two primes in Goldbach’s conjecture |
| 38% | ASIAN | 5 | Like three-fifths of the world's population |
| 38% | SIDHU | 5 | N S —, India Test cricketer who made 201 against West Indies in Port of Spain in 1997 |
| 37% | ASIAN | 5 | Like almost two-thirds of the earth's population |
| 37% | AFRICANAMERICAN | 15 | Like roughly one-eighth of the U.S. population |
| 37% | ASIAN | 5 | Like about 25% of Russia's population |
| 37% | NEG | 3 | What "-" indicates, in terms of batteries: Abbr. |
| 37% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of years in a periodical cicada’s life cycle |
| 37% | ASIAN | 5 | Like about sixty per cent of the world’s population |