| 100% | RASE | 4 | Obliterate, in Oxford |
| 67% | DASHY | 5 | Ostentatious, in Oxford |
| 66% | ZAP | 3 | Obliterate in a flash |
| 63% | OLEMISS | 7 | School in Oxford, informally |
| 58% | ASHMOLE | 7 | Elias __, Freemason founded a museum in Oxford |
| 58% | OLE | 3 | With 78-Across, SEC school in Oxford |
| 56% | EARLS | 5 | Oxford and Surrey in "Richard III" |
| 54% | LOO | 3 | "Facilities" in an Oxford pub |
| 52% | IRMELIN | 7 | Frederick Delius three-act opera that premiered in Oxford in 1953 |
| 52% | PUNTING | 7 | Using a pole to drive a boat in Oxford and Cambs |
| 51% | BALLIOL | 7 | College at Oxford University founded in 1263 |
| 50% | BRASENOSE | 9 | — College, establishment at Oxford University founded in 1509 |
| 50% | CAMBRIDGE | 9 | They battle Oxford in an annual boat race |
| 50% | ZED | 3 | It's last in the Oxford English Dictionary |
| 50% | THE | 3 | Most common word in English, according to Oxford |
| 48% | SET | 3 | It occupies 25 pages in the Oxford English Dictionary |
| 44% | ASHMOLEAN | 9 | — Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, establishment founded in 1683 |
| 42% | SELFIE | 6 | Picture type that Oxford Dictionaries named its "Word of the Year" in 2013 |
| 42% | OXFAM | 5 | Charitable organization that began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in 1942 |
| 42% | OXFAM | 5 | Charitable organisation that began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in 1942 |
| 42% | DOH | 3 | "The Simpsons" exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 |
| 42% | DOH | 3 | "The Simpsons" exclamation that was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001 |
| 41% | GOBLINMODE | 10 | Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year in 2022, describing an unapologetically self-indulgent state |
| 41% | RACHELMADDOW | 12 | MSNBC host who earned a doctoral degree in politics from Oxford University: 2 wds. |
| 39% | SALTBURN | 8 | 2023 thriller in which Barry Keoghan's character becomes obsessed with a fellow Oxford student |
| 38% | SOMERVILLE | 10 | Mary —, member of the Royal Astronomical Society born in 1780 after whom — College, Oxford, is named |
| 38% | LEWIS | 5 | ___ Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland" who also worked as a math professor at Oxford University |
| 37% | PENCE | 5 | Change at Oxford |
| 37% | RELACING | 8 | Fixing an Oxford |
| 37% | DON | 3 | Teacher at Oxford |