| 100% | MEDIA | 5 | Many perpetrators of "Fake News" according to the Prez. |
| 47% | BOOKS | 5 | Things people resolve to read more of in the New Year |
| 44% | ARP | 3 | "Constellation According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 44% | FAIREST | 7 | Like Aphrodite, according to the Judgment of Paris |
| 42% | ARP | 3 | "Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 42% | ZINC | 4 | Most of the newest pennies |
| 42% | IRE | 3 | According to Chaucer the root of this sin is pride |
| 41% | ADAM | 4 | Ancestor of all men according to the Bible |
| 41% | ESE | 3 | Suffix attached to the name of many languages |
| 41% | NOOL | 4 | According to the Sour Kangaroo, Horton was "the biggest blame fool in the jungle of ___" |
| 41% | CATS | 4 | What Grizabella and Skimbleshanks are, according to the title of a Broadway musical |
| 41% | TREND | 5 | Rise to the top of a news feed, say |
| 41% | TRENDS | 6 | Rises to the top of a news feed, say |
| 41% | EPHESIANS | 9 | Epistle to the —, tenth book of the New Testament |
| 41% | UPSTATE | 7 | Word referring to the northern part of New York |
| 41% | TAO | 3 | Way of life, according to the Chinese |
| 41% | MAINLAND | 8 | Most of the U.S., to Hawaiians |
| 41% | COMEBACK | 8 | What Valerie Cherish made, according to the title of a 2005-2014 TV series |
| 40% | TREND | 5 | Rise to the top of a Twitter news feed, say |
| 40% | BROOKLYN | 8 | The most populous borough of New York City |
| 40% | URBANAREAS | 10 | Definition, according to the US Census Bureau, of Raleigh, NC, Tucson, AZ and Dayton, OH |
| 40% | SONIA | 5 | Sotomayor who said, "You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true" |
| 40% | UNDERUSE | 8 | Fail to make the most of |
| 40% | COLOR | 5 | 1997 addition to the front page of The New York Times |
| 39% | ASIA | 4 | Home to most of the Silk Road |
| 39% | DIMITRI | 7 | New York Philharmonic conductor for most of the fifties, ____ Mitropoulos |
| 39% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel, according to the Bible |
| 39% | PELE | 4 | Star of football, to most of the world |
| 39% | CITYSTREETS | 11 | Locale for most of the New York Marathon |
| 39% | ASIA | 4 | Home to most of the world's people |