| 100% | WARGRAVES | 9 | Resting places of soldiers who died in combat |
| 45% | MERCYSEAT | 9 | Resting place of God, in the Bible |
| 44% | PLATO | 5 | Chidi’s response to “It’s like, who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?,” on “The Good Place” |
| 43% | AIDA | 4 | Slave who dies in the Temple of Vulcan |
| 43% | AIDA | 4 | Princess who dies in the temple of Vulcan |
| 43% | YODA | 4 | Guru who dies in "Return of the Jedi" |
| 42% | ENA | 3 | Queen of Spain who died in 1969 |
| 42% | PENDA | 5 | King of Mercia who died in 655 |
| 42% | VET | 3 | Former soldier who served in combat, for short |
| 42% | AUGUSTUS | 8 | Emperor of Rome who died in AD 14 |
| 42% | OASIS | 5 | Place of rest in the midst of gloom |
| 41% | ELI | 3 | Actor Wallach who died in 2014 at the age of 98 |
| 41% | ASTOR | 5 | John Jacob ___ IV (millionaire who died in the sinking of the Titanic) |
| 41% | ELDER | 5 | Pliny the ___ (Roman naturalist who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius) |
| 41% | LEAR | 4 | TV producer Norman who died in December at the age of 101 |
| 40% | WARGRAVES | 9 | Burial sites of those who died in military service |
| 40% | KEITHMOON | 9 | Drummer of The Who, died in 1978 |
| 40% | SHAND | 5 | Bruce —, British Army officer who died in 2006; father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall |
| 40% | SHAND | 5 | Bruce —, British Army officer who died in 2006; father of Camilla, the Queen Consort |
| 39% | DEREKSHEPHERD | 13 | Patrick Dempsey character who died in last Thursday's episode of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 39% | OATES | 5 | Lawrence —, explorer who died in 1912 on the second Antarctic expedition of R F Scott |
| 38% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer who died in 2005 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 38% | BYRD | 4 | William —, English composer and organist who died in 1623 whose publications include Songs of Sundrie Natures |
| 38% | YODA | 4 | Character who died at the age of 900 in "Return of the Jedi" |
| 37% | DIONYSIUS | 9 | — I, tyrant of Syracuse who died in 367 BC |
| 37% | XERXES | 6 | — I, King of Persia who died in 465 BC |
| 37% | PLINY | 5 | — the Elder, Roman author who died witnessing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD |
| 37% | JOHNOFGAUNT | 11 | Son of Edward III of England who died in 1399 |
| 37% | IANPAISLEY | 10 | Northern Ireland religious and political leader who died in 2014; co-founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster |