| 100% | KEROUAC | 7 | Novelist Jack whom Time once described as “a kind of literary James Dean” |
| 34% | NOEL | 4 | Oasis member who once described his brother (and bandmate) as "a man with a fork in a world of soup" |
| 34% | EDDIE | 5 | Comedian Izzard who once described the European Union as “the cutting edge of politics, in a very extraordinarily boring way” |
| 31% | CLOVE | 5 | Dried flower bud, used as a kind of spice |
| 31% | SCOTCH | 6 | Having relations to Scotland, as a kind of whiskey |
| 31% | NEWSOM | 6 | Artist described as "The Indie Singer-Harpist Who Met the Orchestra" in a 2008 New York Times article |
| 31% | TENET | 5 | 2020 film starring John David Washington as a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time |
| 30% | DROWNING | 8 | A kind of man who will clutch at a straw |
| 29% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character described as "a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans" |
| 29% | QUADRATIC | 9 | Kind of equation graphed as a parabola |
| 29% | IRISH | 5 | Kind of accent known as a brogue |
| 29% | ASH | 3 | Malinda Lo novel described as a "lesbian retelling of Cinderella" |
| 29% | ETHYL | 5 | Kind of alcohol used as a fuel source |
| 29% | IDAHO | 5 | Kind of potato also known as a "russet" |
| 29% | SOSA | 4 | Guy who started and ended as a Ranger but spent most of the time as a Cub |
| 29% | ETHANFROME | 10 | Edith Wharton character who is described as a “ruin of a man” after surviving a crash |
| 29% | TAIL | 4 | Feature of Hobbes that Calvin once described as "sort of a necktie for your butt" |
| 28% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character described as "blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale" |
| 28% | MYCELLA | 7 | Cheese with blue-green mould described as a Danish version of Gorgonzola |
| 28% | ART | 3 | "All ___ is a kind of confession, more or less oblique": James Baldwin |
| 28% | OWL | 3 | Kind of bird that's allowed as a pet at Hogwarts |
| 28% | NED | 3 | "It's Kind of a Funny Story" novelist Vizzini |
| 27% | ELINOR | 6 | Novelist Glyn who coined "It" as a euphemism |
| 27% | CORMAC | 6 | McCarthy whom Stephen King elegized as “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time” (June, 2023) |
| 27% | SELFIES | 7 | Photos described as a "ubiquitous symbol of millennial navel-gazing" by The New Yorker |
| 27% | AHAB | 4 | Obsessed sea captain who appeared on the final season of "Once Upon a Time" |
| 27% | COALGAS | 7 | Once used as a resource instead of its natural counterpart: 2 wds. |
| 27% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain described as a "grand, ungodly, god-like man" |
| 27% | RANT | 4 | Post that might be described as a “wall of text” |
| 27% | ETTA | 4 | James who sang "A Sunday Kind of Love" |