| 100% | SCUTES | 6 | Name given to the scales of a tortoise's shell |
| 49% | HOROLOGY | 8 | Name given to the study of time |
| 49% | PHARAOH | 7 | Name given to the leader of ancient Egypt |
| 49% | ANATOLIA | 8 | Name given to the Asian part of Turkey |
| 48% | ROARING | 7 | Name given to the prosperous years of the 1920s |
| 48% | PITUITARY | 9 | Name given to the "master gland" of the human body |
| 47% | OCA | 3 | Name given to the dwelling used by indigenous people of Brazil |
| 47% | KINDLE | 6 | Name given to a group of kittens |
| 47% | SLEUTH | 6 | Name given to a group of bears |
| 47% | DISSONANCE | 10 | Name given to W A Mozart's String Quartet No 19 in C major of 1785 |
| 47% | WAIFLOOK | 8 | Name given to the appearance of '60s thin, large-eyed models like Twiggy |
| 46% | MARXISM | 7 | Name given to the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 46% | MACGUFFIN | 9 | Name given to a vague plot point in the movies |
| 45% | HIDDENFIGURES | 13 | Name given to the team of NASA mathematicians who performed calculations for early space launches (2 wds.) |
| 44% | LILY | 4 | Corpse ___, name given to the Rafflesia, which is one of the largest flowers in the world |
| 44% | DAUPHIN | 7 | Name given to the eldest son of the king of France during the majority of the period 1350-1830 |
| 43% | ROARING | 7 | & 6D Name given to the stormy areas of ocean between latitudes 40º and 50º in the Southern Hemisphere |
| 43% | OONA | 4 | Actress Hart of the commercial where she gives her Levi's to a dog |
| 43% | ARCHDUKE | 8 | Title given to a son of the Emperor of Austria |
| 43% | SUGARPILL | 9 | “Medication” given to a member of the control group, perhaps |
| 42% | GUESTLIST | 9 | The names of everyone invited to a party |
| 42% | GEORGOHM | 8 | Gave his name to a unit of electrical resistance |
| 42% | SPORADES | 8 | Name given to two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea; the Northern — and Southern — |
| 42% | NEWDEAL | 7 | Name given to the domestic policies of US president Franklin D Roosevelt for economic and social reform during his first term of office |
| 41% | ATLANTIS | 8 | Name of the last Space Shuttle to complete a mission |
| 41% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 41% | UNIONJACK | 9 | Name given to the UK flag |
| 41% | KIPSBAY | 7 | Site of a 1776 battle that gave New York City to the British |
| 41% | PET | 3 | A piece of lint on a string, to Marcel the Shell |