| 100% | JUT | 3 | Look more prominent than the rest, with "out" |
| 42% | IAGO | 4 | Villain with more lines than the title character |
| 40% | IAGO | 4 | Shakespeare villain with more lines than the title character |
| 40% | IAGO | 4 | Shakespearean role with more lines than the title character |
| 39% | AOL | 3 | ISP that reportedly mailed out more than 660 million CDs over the years |
| 39% | UMBRELLA | 8 | Rihanna song with the lyric "Now that it's raining more than ever" |
| 39% | GHOST | 5 | 2021 Justin Bieber hit with the lyric “I miss you more than life” |
| 39% | SADDEST | 7 | Lower than the rest |
| 39% | BEST | 4 | Better than the rest |
| 39% | NEWER | 5 | Fresher than the rest? |
| 39% | SECONDTONONE | 12 | Better than the rest |
| 39% | SLYEST | 6 | Sneakier than the rest |
| 39% | SVU | 3 | Crime series spinoff with more seasons than the original |
| 38% | FORTWORTH | 9 | Home of the Texas Motor Speedway, with seating for more than 150,000 spectators |
| 38% | CANADA | 6 | Country whose border with the U.S. is more than five thousand miles long |
| 38% | CROATIA | 7 | Country on the Adriatic with more than 1,000 islands |
| 38% | LEMON | 5 | Meadowlark, the "Clown Prince" who played more than 16,000 games with of the Globetrotters |
| 38% | STAR | 4 | One billed higher than the rest |
| 37% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 37% | YAM | 3 | Agricultural item that Nigeria produces more of than the rest of the world combined |
| 37% | TRIENNIAL | 9 | More frequent than the Olympics |
| 36% | STOCK | 5 | Word with more than 20 definitions in the Merriam-Webster dictionary ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 36% | COOPER | 6 | Mini marque that's "sportier" than the rest |
| 36% | HUMANFAMILY | 11 | 43-Across poem with the lines "We are more alike, my friends, / Than we are unalike" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | EDSEL | 5 | Product advertised with the slogan "It acts the way it looks, but it doesn't cost that much" |
| 35% | COMATOSE | 8 | More than out |
| 35% | EDSHEERAN | 9 | "Perfect" singer with more than 51 million YouTube subscribers, the most subscribers of any British music artist (2 wds.) |
| 35% | JUSTINBIEBER | 12 | "Baby" singer with more than 68 million YouTube subscribers, the most subscribers of any solo music artist (2 wds.) |
| 35% | BOURG | 5 | Town of Grand-___, Guadeloupe, where the Poisson Distillery churns out more than 50,000 gallons of rum each year |
| 35% | AMA | 3 | “I am Barack Obama, President of the United States—___” (2012 Reddit thread with more than two hundred thousand upvotes) |