| 41% | HETAERAE | 8 | Courtesans of ancient Greece |
| 37% | RUIN | 4 | One part of an ancient destroyed building |
| 37% | ENCO | 4 | One of Exxon's old names |
| 37% | TEX | 3 | One half of a Southwestern cuisine name |
| 37% | HAMNET | 6 | Name of Shakespeare's one son |
| 37% | GEOSPACE | 8 | One name for the region of outer space near Earth |
| 37% | OSSA | 4 | Name of a mountain in Greece and Canada |
| 37% | DIDDY | 5 | One of Sean Combs's stage names |
| 35% | ARAM | 4 | Biblical name of ancient Syria |
| 35% | EROS | 4 | One taking a bow in ancient Greece |
| 34% | LUIGI | 5 | One of the Mario Bros (the one not named Mario) |
| 34% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 34% | PHARAOH | 7 | Name given to the leader of ancient Egypt |
| 33% | CRUE | 4 | One of two words with an umlaut in a metal band's name |
| 32% | LARGO | 5 | Musical tempo that shares a name with one of the Florida Keys |
| 32% | ILIUM | 5 | The Latin name for the ancient city of Troy |
| 31% | PALATINE | 8 | Chicago suburb with the same name as one of Rome's seven hills |
| 31% | SIREN | 5 | Ancient Greek source of a beautiful song ... or modern source of an awful one |
| 31% | PELE | 4 | One-named "King of Football" |
| 30% | ZEUS | 4 | Subject of a statue that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
| 30% | SAMOSA | 6 | Savory pastry whose name has one more letter than that of a Polynesian island nation |
| 30% | SELENA | 6 | One-named "Queen of Tejano Music" |
| 30% | AVI | 3 | One-named Newberry-winning author of Poppy |
| 30% | LEA | 3 | Actress Michele who was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2023 |
| 30% | LBS | 3 | Units whose name's first letter stands for an ancient-Roman unit of measurement |
| 29% | ADELE | 5 | One-named singer of "Skyfall" |
| 29% | SADE | 4 | One-named singer of “Paradise” |
| 29% | ADELE | 5 | One-named singer of "Hello" |
| 29% | DEGAS | 5 | Painter Edgar whose last name is one letter away from being an anagram of his first name |
| 29% | PET | 3 | Creature whose name is one letter off from the type of doctor who takes care of it |