| 100% | NOD | 3 | Rice U's Wiess College's annual party where this year's theme was "Things That Go Bump in the Night" |
| 39% | POLTERGEISTS | 12 | Things that go bump in the night |
| 38% | EERIE | 5 | Like things that go bump in the night |
| 33% | SATS | 4 | Tests that, in the U.S., will be administered digitally starting this year |
| 30% | BUMP | 4 | Things that go ___ in the night |
| 30% | SNOW | 4 | "It's the first ___ of the year! The holiday season is upon us! Look out for fun hidden themes throughout this month in DTC!" |
| 29% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to admit women |
| 28% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| 28% | EMMA | 4 | Girls' name that's been top five in the U.S. every year since 2002 |
| 27% | IHEARIT | 7 | Response to something going bump in the night |
| 27% | TREND | 5 | Thing that’s in, for the time being |
| 27% | THEUSOPEN | 9 | Annual sporting event that is this puzzle's theme |
| 26% | PRIVATELY | 9 | "Between us"... or the word hidden between U and S in this puzzle's theme entries |
| 26% | SPRINGS | 7 | Cherry ___ State Park, popular stargazing spot in the US that hosts annual star parties |
| 26% | TEXAS | 5 | ___ Longhorns, Kevin Durant's college basketball team where he was named the National Player of the Year in 2006 |
| 26% | PSY | 3 | Let's go to the 2010s! What will you see here? You will see this rapper performing the hit "Gangnam Style" in the year 2012 |
| 26% | DAILYPLANET | 11 | Publication that is the key to this puzzle's theme |
| 25% | LITTLEWOMEN | 11 | 1860s novel that is the basis for this puzzle's theme |
| 25% | YALE | 4 | College that awarded the first Ph.D. in the U.S. |
| 25% | ISLE | 4 | "... this uncharted desert ___" (where Gilligan was, in the theme song) |
| 25% | YOUR | 4 | "Go ___ Own Way," 1976 song by Fleetwood Mac that was their first top-ten hit in the U.S. |
| 25% | TEXAS | 5 | Where Paris (pop. 24,476) can be found in the U.S. |
| 25% | IDAHO | 5 | Where Moscow (pop. 25,435) can be found in the U.S. |
| 25% | OMOO | 4 | Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" |
| 25% | ADENYEMEN | 9 | Where the U.S.S. Cole was attacked in 2000 |
| 25% | APP | 3 | Phone download that's been installed in the theme answers |
| 25% | WERE | 4 | Sing along to this classic ABBA song! "There was something in the air that night, the stars ___ bright, Fernando..." |
| 25% | STATEDEBT | 9 | Something that can be collected from anywhere in the U.S.? |
| 24% | FAYETTEVILLE | 12 | Where Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress, was born |
| 24% | JEEP | 4 | The 2020 Gladiator is this brand's first pick-up truck in over 25 years |