| 100% | HOBBIT | 6 | Nickname of Homo floresiensis, which inhabited the island of Flores until about 50,000 years ago |
| 29% | BMOVIE | 6 | Presentation which was the bottom half of the old double feature matinee, sixty years ago |
| 29% | RALPHWAITE | 10 | "Days of Our Lives" actor who played John Walton Sr. on "The Waltons," which debuted 50 years ago this week (2 wds.) |
| 29% | GONDWANA | 8 | Supercontinent that covered about one fifth of the Earth about three hundred million years ago |
| 28% | ALI | 3 | The 2001 sports film which is about ten critical years in the life of America's greatest boxer |
| 28% | ASIA | 4 | India joined it about 50 million years ago |
| 28% | DODO | 4 | Extinct flightless bird that inhabited the island of Mauritius |
| 28% | TILE | 4 | Something they put on the wall of Darius the Great's palace at Susa, about 2500 years ago |
| 28% | ALGOL | 5 | Triple star system whose variability was apparently noted in the ancient Cairo Calendar of about 3200 years ago |
| 27% | EOCENE | 6 | Epoch of 50 million years ago |
| 27% | CEBU | 4 | Province in the central Philippines which includes the island of Mactan |
| 27% | EON | 3 | The Hadean was the first one, ending about 4 billion years ago |
| 27% | DRSTRANGELOVE | 13 | Movie subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," which was released 50 years ago today: 2 wds. |
| 27% | BEY | 3 | Nickname of 2025's Album of the Year Grammy winner |
| 27% | SWEDEN | 6 | Country to which the island of Gotland belongs |
| 27% | HAITI | 5 | Nation to which the island of Tortuga belongs |
| 26% | GRANT | 5 | One of about 10,000 the NSF hands out every year |
| 26% | CARIBBEAN | 9 | Sea in which the island of Cozumel is located |
| 26% | CARIBBEAN | 9 | Sea in which the island of Redonda is found |
| 26% | PERSIAN | 7 | Gulf in which the island of Bahrain is located |
| 26% | DODO | 4 | Extinct bird which used to roam the island of Mauritius |
| 26% | CIRCA | 5 | About the year of |
| 25% | EDO | 3 | Seat of the Tokugawa Shogunate, years ago |
| 25% | EYE | 3 | "The Bluest ___," 1970 novel written by Toni Morrison which is about a young girl growing up during the years of Great Depression |
| 25% | ERODED | 6 | What the Appalachian Mountains have done since about 480 million years ago |
| 25% | SEED | 4 | Silene stenophylla produced the oldest - at about 32,000 years - one of these ever to have been successfully grown |
| 25% | SATELLITEGALAXY | 15 | *One of about 50 orbiting the Milky Way |
| 25% | ICEAGE | 6 | It ended about 10,000 years ago |
| 25% | RHODE | 5 | ___ Island (smallest of the 50 states) |
| 24% | MLK | 3 | He wrote about “a positive peace which is the presence of justice,” for short |