| 100% | STRAW | 5 | Single-use plastic item that's increasingly the subject of bans |
| 54% | STRAW | 5 | Plastic item that's increasingly banned |
| 43% | SLOVAKIA | 8 | Country that's east of the Czech Republic (the two used to be a single nation) |
| 41% | MATH | 4 | Subject that requires the use of a calculator, for short |
| 40% | CAP | 3 | Item that's twisted off the top of a bottle |
| 40% | SWAN | 4 | Bird that's often the subject of ice sculptures |
| 40% | ARAL | 4 | Sea that's been the subject of restoration projects |
| 39% | CHEMISTRY | 9 | Subject that calls for the use of a Bunsen burner |
| 39% | HAT | 3 | Clothing item that's one of the tokens in Monopoly |
| 38% | SOULFOOD | 8 | Subject of the J.B.’s 1972 funk single “Pass the Peas” |
| 37% | NOUN | 4 | Part of speech that's typically the subject of a sentence |
| 37% | SEATTLE | 7 | City that's the subject of this puzzle |
| 37% | NOAHSARK | 8 | Craft that's the subject of this puzzle |
| 37% | NCAA | 4 | Group that's the subject of "bracketology": Abbr. |
| 37% | OCCUPANCY | 9 | The percentage of a hotel's rooms that are in use |
| 36% | PEA | 3 | Vegetable that's used to describe the smallest size of hail |
| 36% | ICEPICK | 7 | Item used in the murder of Johnny Boz that detective Nick Curran was investigating |
| 36% | NSA | 3 | Org. that's the subject of "The Puzzle Palace" |
| 35% | SPAM | 4 | Food that's the subject of a museum in Austin, Minn. |
| 35% | AMBERGRIS | 9 | Secretion that's the subject of a chapter in Moby-Dick |
| 35% | SUNRISE | 7 | Subject of the painting that gave Impressionism its name |
| 35% | STAMP | 5 | Item that goes on the corner of an envelope |
| 35% | ENO | 3 | Brian who's the subject of a documentary that's different every time it's screened |
| 35% | XXXXXXXXXX | 10 | Singer-songwriter who's the subject of Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" |
| 35% | ENRON | 5 | Company that's the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
| 35% | KATRINA | 7 | Hurricane that was the subject of 2006's "When the Levees Broke" |
| 35% | NOLA | 4 | City that's the subject of the book Musical Gumbo, for short |
| 35% | SHOE | 4 | Item of clothing that's the "S" in the retail chain "DSW" |
| 35% | RAILSPLITTER | 12 | Campaign nickname that reflected the rustic upbringing of this puzzle's subject |
| 35% | EOM | 3 | Abbr. in the subject of an e-mail that has no body |