| 100% | HALO | 4 | Military science first-person shooter game published by Microsoft which involves an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant |
| 56% | HALO | 4 | First-person shooter game involving an alliance of aliens known as Covenant |
| 36% | BIOSHOCK | 8 | First-person shooter game published by 2K Games which involves ideas Ayn Rand and George Orwell |
| 31% | DOOM | 4 | First-person shooter game released in 1993 by id Software which is considered to be one of the most influential video games of all time |
| 31% | HALFLIFE | 8 | First-person shooter game published by Sierra Studios in which players must escape a research facility: Hyph. |
| 27% | COUNTERSTRIKE | 13 | Multiplayer first-person shooter video game published by Valve in which terrorists battle counter-terrorists: Hyph. |
| 26% | ABBA | 4 | Band known by an acronym for each of the members' first names |
| 26% | PERICLES | 8 | Known as the first citizen of Athens |
| 25% | ELLA | 4 | Fitzgerald known as the First Lady of Song |
| 24% | ELLAFITZGERALD | 14 | Music legend known as the First Lady of Song |
| 24% | THEOLOGY | 8 | Field of study known as the "Queen of the Sciences" |
| 24% | INFANTRY | 8 | Military division known as the "Queen of Battle" |
| 23% | SALLY | 5 | "The Adventures of ___," novel by P.G. Wodehouse first published as a book in 1922 |
| 23% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Novel whose first chapter is preceded by eighty epigraphs, none of which ought to be taken as “veritable gospel cetology,” per the author |
| 23% | CRY | 3 | "Far ___," first-person shooter video game published by Ubisoft |
| 23% | LOUISXII | 8 | French king in 1498, known as Father of the People |
| 23% | ARA | 3 | 11 seasons known as the "Era of ___" in which Notre Dame won two national titles |
| 23% | PRUFROCK | 8 | "The Love Song of J. Alfred ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which was his first published poem |
| 23% | MOONWALK | 8 | Dance move also known as the backslide which was popularized by Michael Jackson in the '80s |
| 23% | DORIA | 5 | Andrea ___, admiral known as the liberator of Genoa for whom an ill-fated ship was named |
| 22% | BALI | 4 | An Indonesian island known as the "Island of the Gods" |
| 22% | ELLA | 4 | Fitzgerald known as the "First Lady of Song" |
| 22% | BIOGRAPHY | 9 | The story of one person's life as told by another |
| 22% | ESTONIAN | 8 | Native of the land known by natives as Eesti |
| 22% | ROSA | 4 | Parks known as the "first lady of civil rights" |
| 22% | LOLA | 4 | Falana known as the "First Lady of Las Vegas" |
| 22% | KATESMITH | 9 | Contralto singer known as the "First Lady of Radio" |
| 22% | ROOT | 4 | Part of the plant which acts as an anchor |
| 22% | ORB | 3 | Another word for a sphere, such as the Sun, which is an ___ of light |
| 22% | TWENTYQUESTIONS | 15 | Game suggested by the first words of 17-, 25- and 42-Across |