| 100% | AOK | 3 | Phrase popularized by Lt. Col. Shorty Powers when he worked for NASA in the sixties as the "voice of Mercury Control" |
| 28% | OPERATIC | 8 | In the style of a work by Bizet, such as Carmen |
| 27% | REESE | 5 | He worked for Hershey in the 1910s-'20s |
| 27% | TOLLS | 5 | "For Whom the Bell ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of his best works |
| 25% | AMOS | 4 | Cedric Diggory's quite immodest dad who works in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures in the Harry Potter series |
| 24% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by John Steinbeck, set in the Great Depression, that was a major reason for him winning the Nobel Prize |
| 24% | NICHELLENICHOLS | 15 | Actress whose work with NASA is the focus of the documentary “Woman in Motion” |
| 24% | VINDIESEL | 9 | He voices Groot in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies: 2 wds. |
| 24% | JOHNNYENGLISH | 13 | A comically incompetent spy for "MI7," created as a parody of 50a, and portrayed by Rowan Atkinson in the films by the same name: 2 wds. |
| 24% | DAMASCUS | 8 | Destination of Saul when he had his conversion, in the Bible |
| 24% | ANCHORBEARD | 11 | Facial hair sported by Robert Downey Jr. when he played Tony Stark in the "Avengers" films (2 wds.) |
| 24% | AMERICANDAD | 11 | Animated show in which the father (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) works for the CIA: 2 wds. |
| 24% | DANCE | 5 | ___ sequence, series of steps that Jenna Ortega performed as Wednesday for the Netflix series, inspired by '80s goth moves in nightclubs |
| 23% | FEB | 3 | Month in 2021 when Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was chosen as the first woman Director-General of WTO (for short) |
| 23% | THEPILGRIMS | 11 | "___ Progress," book by John Bunyan which he worked on while in the Bedfordshire county prison: 2 wds. |
| 23% | FRANCES | 7 | I was the former president of the NRDC and won the Rachel Carson Award in 2007 for my work as an environmentalist |
| 23% | SYNC | 4 | When something is in the same rhythm as another, for short |
| 23% | ODIE | 4 | In the Finnish version of “Garfield,” he’s known as Osku |
| 23% | SEC | 3 | One of the sixty in a minute, for short |
| 23% | CARRY | 5 | Do most of the work for, as a team |
| 23% | CRAIG | 5 | ___ Robinson, "The Office" actor who made a guest appearance as the voice of Cookie in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 23% | IAN | 3 | ___ McShane, "Deadwood" actor who made a guest appearance as the voice of Captain Hook in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 23% | JACOB | 5 | Mark Pellegrino's role as the protector of the island in "Lost" for millennia |
| 23% | REGIS | 5 | ___ Philbin, TV presenter and host who made a guest appearance as the voice of Mabel in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 23% | LIAMNEESON | 10 | He voiced the lion Aslan in the "Chronicles of Narnia" movies: 2 wds. |
| 23% | IHS | 3 | Christogram popularized in the 15th century by Saint Bernardino of Siena |
| 23% | AMY | 3 | ___ Poehler, "Parks and Recreation" actress who made a guest appearance as the voice of Snow White in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 23% | MINSK | 5 | Place Lee Harvey Oswald lived when he worked at the Gorizont Electronics Factory in 1960-62 |
| 23% | PETER | 5 | ___ Griffin, "Family Guy" dad who misuses his powers as a mall Santa, only to be confronted by the actual Santa for the troubles he caused |
| 22% | SMITHERS | 8 | The name of the butler who works for the Lodge family in "Archie" comics |