| 100% | OPIATE | 6 | Religion, to the masses, per Marx |
| 51% | ORATE | 5 | Speak to the masses |
| 51% | ORATES | 6 | Appeals to the masses? |
| 51% | ORATE | 5 | Appeal to the masses? |
| 51% | CROWDSOURCE | 11 | Submit to the masses? |
| 50% | CAPITAL | 7 | It “has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself,” per Karl Marx |
| 50% | BROADCAST | 9 | Distribute TV to the masses |
| 48% | SHEEPLE | 7 | The masses, to conspiracy theorists |
| 47% | OPIUM | 5 | Religion, to Karl Marx |
| 46% | ELITE | 5 | Not available to the lowly masses |
| 44% | ISLAMIC | 7 | Relating to the religion based on the Quran |
| 42% | SHEEPLE | 7 | The gullible masses, to some conspiracy-minded commentators |
| 42% | MARXIAN | 7 | To do with the ideas of Karl Marx |
| 42% | FEAR | 4 | "The path to the dark side," per Yoda |
| 41% | IAGO | 4 | The Bard's ''being next to Devil,'' per Coleridge |
| 41% | LABOR | 5 | Force exploited by the bourgeoisie, to Marx |
| 41% | PRAGUE | 6 | Capital that's home to the world's largest castle, per Guinness |
| 40% | VIADUCT | 7 | Word that led to the "Why a duck?" routine by the Marx brothers |
| 40% | HATRED | 6 | "A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority," per Ambrose Bierce |
| 40% | RHIANNON | 8 | She "takes to the sky like a bird in flight," per Fleetwood Mac |
| 40% | FORTYTWO | 8 | The answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything," per Douglas Adams |
| 39% | OPIATE | 6 | What Marx likened religion to |
| 39% | CURIE | 5 | 3.7 x 10 to the 10th power disintegrations per second, to a physicist |
| 39% | MARXISM | 7 | Name given to the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 39% | DIVORCE | 7 | What "marriage is the chief cause of," per Groucho Marx |
| 39% | RACISM | 6 | What excellence is the best deterrent to, per Oprah Winfrey |
| 39% | ARDEN | 5 | Where to find "books in the running brooks," per Shakespeare |
| 39% | URBANAREA | 9 | Home to about 4 in 5 Americans, per the census |
| 39% | REQUIEM | 7 | Roman Catholic mass held to offer prayers for the dead |
| 38% | MALEGAZE | 8 | It “projects its phantasy on to the female figure,” per the film theorist Laura Mulvey |