100% | GER | 3 | Setting for Zusak's "The Book Thief" (Abbr.) |
55% | SYR | 3 | Setting for 400+ miles of the Euphrates: Abbr. |
55% | MST | 3 | Setting for the Rockies, sometimes: abbr. |
53% | UTAH | 4 | Setting for the beginning of "The Book of Mormon" |
50% | NARNIA | 6 | Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" |
50% | PDT | 3 | In-person setting for the Emmys, but not the Oscars: Abbr. |
50% | AARP | 4 | Group for the 50-plus set: Abbr. |
49% | BOHEMIA | 7 | Setting for The Winter's Tale |
48% | CAPEANN | 7 | Setting for Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus" |
48% | ROME | 4 | Setting for Broadway's "The Light in the Piazza" |
48% | SAMOA | 5 | Setting for Margaret Mead's first book |
48% | CST | 3 | Setting for 10 U.S. states: Abbr. |
47% | CRAPS | 5 | Setting for the lingo in today's theme |
47% | EDT | 3 | Setting for home games of the O's |
47% | EST | 3 | Clock setting for the New Year's Eve ball drop in New York City (Abbr.) |
47% | DENVER | 6 | Setting for part of Kerouac's "On the Road" |
47% | NARNIA | 6 | Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Last Battle" |
47% | EGYPT | 5 | Setting for Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile" |
46% | ABBEY | 5 | Setting for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" |
46% | STONEAGE | 8 | Setting for Jean M. Auel’s “Earth’s Children” books |
46% | MALAYSIA | 8 | Setting for Preeta Samarasan’s “Evening Is the Whole Day” |
46% | ILLYRIA | 7 | The setting for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night |
45% | EDT | 3 | Setting for the PGA Tour's first major of the year |
45% | EDT | 3 | Clock setting for the US Open Tennis Championship (Abbr.) |
45% | ARDEN | 5 | Sylvan setting for “All the world’s a stage” |
45% | THISOTHEREDEN | 13 | Paul Harding generational saga set on a remote island that's a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction (3 wds.) |
44% | MVPS | 4 | Awards for the season's best athletes: Abbr. |
44% | ORAN | 4 | Setting for Camus's "The Stranger" |
44% | ALGERIA | 7 | Setting for Camus's "The Plague" |
44% | ORAN | 4 | Setting for Camus's "The Plague" |