| 100% | TIBET | 5 | Setting for the novel "The Magician of Lhasa" |
| 53% | ASIA | 4 | Setting for the FIFA World Cups of 2002 and 2022 |
| 53% | OTRANTO | 7 | Town on the SE tip of Italy that's the title setting for a Horace Walpole novel |
| 53% | TARA | 4 | Setting for the highest-grossing movie of 1939 |
| 53% | SEA | 3 | Setting for much of the "Odyssey" |
| 52% | CAPEANN | 7 | Setting for Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus" |
| 52% | OESTE | 5 | Setting for the setting of el sol |
| 52% | TARA | 4 | Setting for the biggest movie of 1939 |
| 52% | INDIA | 5 | Setting for much of the movie "Lion" |
| 52% | TOMB | 4 | Setting for the very end of "Aida" |
| 52% | HOMETOWN | 8 | Setting for the early chapters of a biography |
| 51% | UTAH | 4 | Setting for the beginning of "The Book of Mormon" |
| 51% | ABBEY | 5 | Setting for the start of "The Sound of Music" |
| 51% | ALASKANINTERIOR | 15 | Setting for much of the 33-Across/16-Down |
| 51% | PADUA | 5 | Setting for "The Taming of the Shrew" |
| 51% | TORTUGA | 7 | Island setting for "Pirates of the Caribbean" |
| 51% | PST | 3 | Ore. setting for part of the year |
| 50% | SEWER | 5 | Setting for much of the 2006 animated film "Flushed Away" |
| 50% | PALAU | 5 | Micronesian setting for the 10th season of "Survivor" |
| 50% | EDEN | 4 | Garden setting for the beginning of "Good Omens" |
| 50% | ROUND | 5 | Set of drinks for the table |
| 50% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by John Steinbeck, set in the Great Depression, that was a major reason for him winning the Nobel Prize |
| 50% | EGDONHEATH | 10 | Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| 50% | NAM | 3 | Setting for the war novels "The Sympathizer" and "The Women," informally |
| 50% | EDT | 3 | Setting for the PGA Tour's first major of the year |
| 50% | THANKSGIVINGDAY | 15 | Setting for the starts of 17-, 24-, 51- and 64-Across |
| 49% | CRETE | 5 | Greek-island setting for the myth of the Minotaur |
| 49% | RIBS | 4 | Set of 24 for the human skeleton |
| 49% | FARM | 4 | Setting for the black-and-white parts of "The Wizard of Oz" |