| 100% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 46% | EARRING | 7 | "Girl with a Pearl ___," an oil painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer which is housed in the Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| 43% | SON | 3 | “The ___ of Man” (painting of a person whose face is obscured by an apple) |
| 42% | FAERIES | 7 | Creatures of which Gloriana is the “Queene,” in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| 39% | CAR | 3 | "I'm In Love With My ___," 1975 song by Queen which is a part of the album "A Night at the Opera" |
| 38% | SLANG | 5 | Specialty of "Urban Dictionary" which was used in 2011 by a district court in an ATF complaint to document the meanings of "murk" |
| 38% | STOPCOPCITY | 11 | Georgia protest movement from which dozens of activists were charged with racketeering, in a move condemned by the A.C.L.U. (September, 2023) |
| 37% | BASTINADO | 9 | Punishment in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick |
| 36% | PINOCCHIO | 9 | 1940 animated film in which the title character is swallowed by a whale named Monstro |
| 36% | MRMOJORISIN | 11 | Phrase used in the song "L.A. Woman," by Jim Morrison which is an anagram of his name: 3 wds. |
| 35% | SNOOKI | 6 | Jersey Shore star who was punched in the face by a gym teacher |
| 35% | JETSONS | 7 | "The ___," animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera which is about a family in the future |
| 35% | ECLIPSE | 7 | Event in which the sun is obscured by the moon |
| 35% | FALL | 4 | "Hammer To ___," 1984 song by Queen which is a part of the album "The Works" |
| 34% | COSMIC | 6 | "The ___ Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective," book by the astronomer Carl Sagan which was originally published in 1973 |
| 34% | ARMORYSHOW | 10 | Event at which the work spelled out by the circled letters was first exhibited in America |
| 34% | INTOTHE | 7 | "___ Groove" a 1985 song by Madonna which was featured in the film "Desperately Seeking Susan": 2wds. |
| 34% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 34% | CAMERA | 6 | Small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture |
| 34% | ASL | 3 | In which a single raised pinkie is an "i": Abbr. |
| 34% | SLAP | 4 | "That was a ___ in the face" (an insult) |
| 34% | BREAK | 5 | "I Want to ___ Free," 1984 song by Queen which is a part of the album "The Works" |
| 34% | ROSWELL | 7 | Name associated with an event in 1947 many believe has been covered up by a government conspiracy |
| 34% | WORMY | 5 | Like an apple with a hole in it, perhaps |
| 34% | LILACS | 6 | "When ___ Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," poem by Walt Whitman which is an elegy to Abraham Lincoln |
| 33% | NOEL | 4 | (2/3) Pere ___ is the name he goes by in France, which is also a word for a carol |
| 33% | KARATE | 6 | Martial art in which a black belt is the best |
| 33% | DECOR | 5 | The style in which a room is designed |
| 33% | ASL | 3 | Syst. in which "Deaf Power" can be indicated by an open palm over one ear and the other hand forming a closed fist in the air |