| 100% | REALIST | 7 | Opposite of a dreamer, someone who accepts a situation as it is |
| 64% | REALISM | 7 | The practice of accepting a situation as it is |
| 48% | GOODSPORT | 9 | Someone who can accept being the butt of a joke |
| 47% | OKRA | 4 | Someone who loves it might be called a friend of the pod |
| 42% | STET | 4 | Leave a section of writing as it is |
| 42% | MISSYOU | 7 | *Text to someone who's been away for a while [Opposite of 17-Across?] |
| 41% | ADEPT | 5 | A master of an art, someone who is good at something |
| 41% | TRUCKLER | 8 | Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect |
| 41% | MEMBER | 6 | Someone who is part of a country club, say |
| 41% | AGNOSTIC | 8 | Someone who doubts the existence of a higher being |
| 40% | HARRYSTYLES | 11 | "As It Was" singer who is nominated for a 2022 American Music Award for Artist of the Year (2 wds.) |
| 40% | BANKSY | 6 | Anonymous graffiti artist who wrote, “A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with” |
| 40% | NOMADIC | 7 | Like someone who wanders as a way of life |
| 39% | ELIEWIESEL | 10 | Who said "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference" |
| 39% | INVERSE | 7 | The opposite sounds like it is written as a poem? |
| 39% | WIMP | 4 | What someone who backs out of a dare might be called |
| 39% | LON | 3 | Chaney who was known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces" |
| 39% | MEL | 3 | Blanc who was known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices" |
| 39% | HAT | 3 | It may be tipped as a sign of respect |
| 38% | REP | 3 | Sales ___, someone who is appointed to sell on behalf of a company: Abbr. |
| 38% | CRUMBLES | 8 | "That's the way the cookie ___," idiom that means an unpleasant situation must be accepted as it is |
| 37% | OHM | 3 | Small measure of resistance that sounds as though it is part of a meditative chant |
| 37% | REALIST | 7 | Person accepting the world as it is |
| 37% | ETHANFROME | 10 | Edith Wharton character who is described as a “ruin of a man” after surviving a crash |
| 37% | TESTATOR | 8 | Someone who makes a will |
| 37% | SEAMEN | 6 | A person who works as a sailor who is below the rank of officer |
| 37% | FRESHAIR | 8 | Something new and different might be described as a breath of it |
| 36% | ILSA | 4 | Character who says “Kiss me as if it were the last time” to Rick, in a 1942 film |
| 36% | MAPLE | 5 | Tree that is known for its fall foliage and as a source of a syrup enjoyed with pancakes |
| 36% | BOTH | 4 | "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was ___," famous last line of "Charlotte's Web" |