| 100% | ARAL | 4 | Sea that's been the subject of restoration projects |
| 52% | KATRINA | 7 | Hurricane that was the subject of 2006's "When the Levees Broke" |
| 49% | EMU | 3 | Bird that was the subject of an Australian war |
| 49% | REM | 3 | Sleep phase that might be the subject of a sleep study: Abbr. |
| 49% | OPEC | 4 | Subject of the Atlantic article "The Cartel That Never Was" |
| 48% | ARAL | 4 | ___ Sea, shrinking body of water that was once the world's third-largest lake |
| 48% | ELSA | 4 | Lion that was the subject of the book "Born Free" and that is buried in Kenya's Meru National Park |
| 48% | GTO | 3 | Car that was the subject of a 1964 top 10 hit |
| 48% | CIA | 3 | Grp. that was the subject of a recent WikiLeaks release |
| 48% | VERTIGO | 7 | 1958 film that is the subject of this puzzle |
| 48% | EMI | 3 | Co. that was the subject of a Sex Pistols diss track |
| 47% | XIII | 4 | Apollo mission that was the subject of a 1995 film |
| 47% | LYNN | 4 | Loretta who was the subject of "Coal Miner's Daughter" |
| 47% | DREYFUS | 7 | His jailing was the subject of Zola's "J'Accuse...!" |
| 47% | NBA | 3 | League that was the subject of the docuseries “Shut Up and Dribble”: Abbr. |
| 47% | NCAA | 4 | Org. that was the subject of a 2021 Supreme Court antitrust ruling |
| 47% | CLONE | 5 | Biological duplicate that is the subject of many sci-fi movies |
| 47% | AOL | 3 | Tech company that was the subject of a 1997 Time cover |
| 47% | TOLEDO | 6 | Spanish city that was the subject of an El Greco painting |
| 47% | ANGORAS | 7 | Wool sources that were the subject of a 2013 PETA exposé |
| 46% | WVA | 3 | American state that is the subject of the song "Country Roads": Abbr. |
| 46% | CHE | 3 | Guevara who is the subject of Alberto Korda’s “Guerrillero Heroico” photograph |
| 46% | ARAL | 4 | Sea that's a victim of irrigation projects |
| 46% | INDIAN | 6 | Ocean that the Arabian Sea is part of |
| 46% | ARCTIC | 6 | Ocean that the Barents Sea is part of |
| 46% | ZEUS | 4 | Subject of a statue that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
| 46% | MALARIA | 7 | Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902) |
| 46% | STAG | 4 | Animal whose skull is the subject of Georgia O'Keeffe's "Summer Days" |
| 45% | POSEFOR | 7 | Be the subject of, as a photograph |
| 45% | FYRE | 4 | Failed music festival that was the subject of two popular 2019 documentaries |