| 100% | MENTION | 7 | Refer to or name in conversation |
| 59% | MENTION | 7 | Refer to; bring up in conversation |
| 56% | ADVERTED | 8 | Referred to in writing or speech |
| 51% | AUTONYM | 7 | A word or name by which a group refers to itself |
| 51% | OTTO | 4 | Name hidden in "to be or not to be" |
| 49% | THEGAP | 6 | Classic name in retail clothing ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 48% | BIG | 3 | Lead-in to Boi, Sean, or Daddy Kane, in rappers' names |
| 45% | MENTION | 7 | Refer to in passing |
| 45% | CITED | 5 | Referred to in text |
| 45% | APART | 5 | To or in pieces |
| 44% | CITE | 4 | Refer to in a footnote |
| 44% | CITES | 5 | Refers to in a footnote |
| 43% | NOR | 3 | Place name lead-in to -folk or -wich |
| 43% | CITE | 4 | Refer to, in a research paper |
| 43% | CITE | 4 | Refer to, in a term paper |
| 43% | CITE | 4 | Refer to in an academic paper |
| 43% | CITES | 5 | Refers to, in a journal article |
| 43% | HOLM | 4 | German word that refers to an island in a river or a lake |
| 43% | GROUPCHAT | 9 | Conversation among friends ... or a hint to the animal collectives in the starred answers and the conversations that follow them |
| 42% | SHE | 3 | Refers to a female person or animal |
| 42% | BARRIER | 7 | *Obstruction, or what 13a could refer to in architecture |
| 42% | CITE | 4 | Refer to, as a source in an essay |
| 42% | XXXXX | 5 | Name in the credits to "The Color Purple" |
| 42% | REP | 3 | Single curl or crunch in the gym, also used to informally refer to an agent |
| 42% | SECTIONS | 8 | What § symbols refer to, in contracts |
| 41% | RITZ | 4 | Big name in hotels or crackers |
| 41% | ARGO | 4 | Big name in cornstarch or tea |
| 41% | BIGELOW | 7 | Big name in carpets or tea |
| 41% | EDEN | 4 | Paradise referred to in Paradise Lost |
| 41% | ONEARMEDMAN | 11 | Name used to refer to Frederick Sykes, the main suspect according to the protagonist in 18a: 2 wds. |