| 100% | FLAT | 4 | Like the world, to the ancients |
| 79% | FLAT | 4 | Like the world to pre-Columbians |
| 71% | ENTITLED | 8 | Acting like the world is owed to you |
| 70% | MESSIANIC | 9 | Like one sent to save the world |
| 69% | PYRAMIDAL | 9 | Like the only intact Wonder of the Ancient World |
| 67% | LOG | 3 | Sleep like a ___ (be dead to the world) |
| 66% | ANATOLIA | 8 | It was home to two Wonders of the Ancient World |
| 64% | BORNEO | 6 | Third-largest island in the world, home to an ancient, biodiverse rainforest |
| 64% | COKE | 4 | "I'd like to buy the world a ___" (classic ad song lyric) |
| 63% | TEACH | 5 | "I'd like to ___ the world to sing ... " (line from a classic Coca-Cola ad) |
| 63% | EASTERNMOST | 11 | Like the aleutians to the us |
| 62% | NUDE | 4 | Like the athletes in the ancient Olympics |
| 62% | DRIVEN | 6 | Like the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | ELDEST | 6 | Like the heir to the throne, usually |
| 62% | THATSAMORE | 10 | "When the world seems to shine / Like you've had too much wine" song |
| 61% | AMORE | 5 | That feeling "when the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine" |
| 59% | INTHERED | 8 | Owing, like the answers to the starred clues |
| 59% | POLAR | 5 | Like the end of the world |
| 59% | OMANI | 5 | Like the world's largest sultanate |
| 59% | DOWN | 4 | Like the answer to this clue |
| 59% | OVINE | 5 | Like ones welcomed to the fold? |
| 59% | DIRTY | 5 | Like clothes heading to the laundry |
| 59% | ONUS | 4 | The world, to Atlas |
| 59% | STAGE | 5 | The world, to Shakespeare? |
| 58% | SUREST | 6 | Like the risk to bet on, maybe |
| 58% | OEDIPAL | 7 | Like the desire to commit patricide, perhaps |
| 58% | HANDMADE | 8 | Like gifts subject to the "sweater curse" |
| 58% | OMEN | 4 | Eclipse, maybe, to the ancients |
| 58% | WATER | 5 | An element, to the ancients |
| 58% | GAEA | 4 | Earth, to the ancient Greeks |