| 100% | MEDIEVAL | 8 | Period in history also called the Middle Ages |
| 63% | ERA | 3 | A long period in history, like the Middle Ages |
| 43% | BACKBEND | 8 | Stretch also called the wheel pose in yoga |
| 43% | EON | 3 | Period in the earth's history |
| 43% | JURASSIC | 8 | Period in the Age of Dinosaurs |
| 42% | MEDIEVAL | 8 | Term used to describe the Middle Ages in Europe |
| 42% | JOHNNYCASH | 10 | Country legend also called the "Man in Black" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | REDFISH | 7 | Also called spottail bass, swims in the Atlantic |
| 41% | MII | 3 | Year in the Middle Ages |
| 41% | GOTHICART | 9 | Development in the Middle Ages |
| 41% | VIII | 4 | Eight in the Middle Ages |
| 41% | HAMMER | 6 | Bone of the middle ear, also called malleus |
| 40% | SILVERAGE | 9 | Second-greatest period in the history of something |
| 40% | EON | 3 | Phanerozoic ___ (current period in the earth's history) |
| 40% | WISHBONE | 8 | V-shaped bone also called the furcula above the breastbone in most birds |
| 40% | CHARLESBURNETT | 14 | “Killer of Sheep” director, whom Ava DuVernay called “one of the most significant American directors in cinema history of any color, period” |
| 40% | JETAGE | 6 | Period in aviation history marked by the advent of turbine engines |
| 40% | NEOLITHIC | 9 | Also called New Stone Age, preceded the Bronze Age |
| 40% | STAPES | 6 | Middle ear bone also called the stirrup |
| 40% | STAPES | 6 | Innermost of the ossicles in the middle ear also called the stirrup |
| 39% | FEUDAL | 6 | Like England in the Middle Ages |
| 39% | WINDMILL | 8 | Device invented in the Middle Ages |
| 39% | LIEGE | 5 | Feudal lord in the Middle Ages |
| 39% | PEASANT | 7 | Poor farmer in the Middle Ages |
| 39% | MOORS | 5 | Maghrebi Muslims in the Middle Ages |
| 38% | FORMALDEHYDE | 12 | Organic compound also called methanal used in the production of industrial resins |
| 38% | GREGORIAN | 9 | Chant in church invented in the Middle Ages |
| 38% | FRANCONIA | 9 | Duchy in central Germany in the Middle Ages |