| 100% | AFROPUNK | 8 | Music festival that started as a series called the Liberation Sessions |
| 34% | KIA | 3 | Automaker that started as a bicycle company |
| 34% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that started as a Hydrox knockoff |
| 33% | MEINEKE | 7 | Car care franchise that started as a muffler specialist |
| 33% | KIA | 3 | Korean automaker that started as a bicycle parts manufacturer |
| 33% | GOLD | 4 | ___ Bar, city in Washington that started as a prospectors camp |
| 33% | WAYMO | 5 | Self-driving car company that started as a Google project |
| 32% | DROPTHEMIC | 10 | New TBS celebrity competition series that started as a "Late Late Show" segment: 3 wds. |
| 32% | WACO | 4 | City with a radio station that has the same call letters as the city's name |
| 32% | TONKA | 5 | Toy truck maker that started as a gardening tools company, oddly enough |
| 32% | TIME | 4 | "One Day at a ___," sitcom that featured an animated episode as the series finale in season 4 |
| 31% | KWANZAA | 7 | Holiday festival that starts the day after 132-Across |
| 31% | SLUR | 4 | In music, a curved line indicating that the notes in its limits be played smoothly, as one phrase |
| 31% | PAW | 3 | "___ Patrol," Canadian animated TV series with animals as the main characters that was made into a feature movie |
| 30% | CCR | 3 | Roots rock band that started as the Blue Velvets, for short |
| 30% | GARY | 4 | Fictional pet on the animated TV series "SpongeBob SquarePants" that is a snail acting as if it's a cat |
| 30% | FYRE | 4 | Failed music festival that was the subject of two popular 2019 documentaries |
| 30% | SATURNALIA | 10 | Festival that the poet Catullus called “the best of days” |
| 29% | FUJIROCK | 8 | Japanese music festival on the side of a mountain |
| 29% | SHACK | 5 | Shake ___: fast casual restaurant chain that started as a hot dog stand in Madison Square Park in 2001 |
| 29% | REBOOT | 6 | Fresh start, as of a movie series |
| 29% | PARKLIFE | 8 | Music festival in the U.K. that is held annually in Manchester |
| 29% | GLASTONBURY | 11 | Music festival in the U.K. that is held in Pilton, Somerset |
| 29% | LIKEAPRAYER | 11 | Madonna hit that starts with the lyric "Life is a mystery" |
| 28% | AFROPUNK | 8 | Annual music festival that originated in Brooklyn and is now held in cities around the world |
| 28% | LATITUDE | 8 | Music festival in the U.K. that is held annually in Henham Park, Suffolk |
| 28% | STONEBUTCHBLUES | 15 | Leslie Feinberg novel written as a call to action for trans liberation |
| 28% | WAGONEER | 8 | Jeep vehicle that starts with the name of a kid's vehicle |
| 28% | ZUCCHINI | 8 | Fruit that starts with a Z, eaten as a vegetable |
| 28% | NILE | 4 | River that once had a tributary called the Khufu Branch |