| 100% | AHABS | 5 | Monomaniacal captain of the "Pequod" and the "sheik of the burning sands" that Ray Stevens sang of in 1962 |
| 43% | AHABTHEARAB | 11 | *"Sheik of ... burning sand" in a Ray Stevens hit |
| 36% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod, in the novel "Moby-Dick" |
| 36% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod, in "Moby-Dick" |
| 34% | THIGH | 5 | That part of the leg between the hip and the knee in man |
| 34% | THIGH | 5 | That part of the leg between the hip and the knee in humans |
| 33% | AENEID | 6 | Work that starts "I sing of arms and the man" |
| 32% | KINGTUTEXHIBIT | 14 | Traveling show of the 1970s and 2000s that originated in Cairo |
| 32% | LOCUST | 6 | Insect of warm and tropical regions of the Old World that travels in swarms stripping vegetation |
| 32% | RICO | 4 | Puerto ___, commonwealth that placed second in the 2013 and 2017 editions of the World Baseball Classic tournament |
| 31% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that makes the sound of the duck in "Peter and the Wolf" |
| 31% | SIAMESE | 7 | __ cat, breed that sang in Lady and the Tramp |
| 31% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of whaler the Pequod in 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick |
| 31% | ACHY | 4 | First word in the title of the Billy Ray Cyrus song that popularized line dancing |
| 31% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod |
| 31% | KUDU | 4 | Beast that's a tribal totem of the Barolong and Batlhaping people of Southern Africa and known as a "tholo" in Tswana |
| 31% | PARIS | 5 | City that "is burning," in the title of a classic documentary |
| 31% | OATES | 5 | Half of the duo that sang "Did It In A Minute" |
| 30% | IRIS | 4 | Coloured muscular diaphragm that surrounds and controls the size of the pupil in a human eye |
| 30% | REM | 3 | Georgia-based band that was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 |
| 30% | VINDIESEL | 9 | Aptly surnamed star burning a lot of gas in "The Fast and the Furious" |
| 30% | PROULX | 6 | Annie —, author of novels Postcards and That Old Ace in the Hole |
| 30% | THROAT | 6 | Part of the body that's with ear and nose in ENT |
| 30% | POLE | 4 | "The Captain of the ___-Star," short story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was published in the Temple Bar |
| 30% | ALY | 3 | American gymnast ___ Raisman who was the captain of the artistic gymnastics team in 2012 and 2016 Olympics |
| 30% | KING | 4 | The ___ Arthur Baking Company, one of the oldest flour and baking companies that was founded in 1790 |
| 30% | TAMPABAY | 8 | Team that has a tankful of rays in the back of its ballpark |
| 30% | TORFAEN | 7 | Principal area in SE Wales that includes the towns of Pontypool and Cwmbran |
| 30% | CMA | 3 | Org. that awarded Taylor Swift "Entertainer of the Year" in 2009 and 2011 |
| 30% | ELSA | 4 | Lion that was the subject of the book "Born Free" and that is buried in Kenya's Meru National Park |