| 100% | ONEPERCENT | 10 | Target of the Occupy movement |
| 56% | MOB | 3 | Target of the feds |
| 56% | EGRET | 5 | Target of the plume trade |
| 56% | ASH | 3 | Target of the emerald borer |
| 56% | SMURF | 5 | Target of the wizard Gargamel |
| 56% | POLIO | 5 | Target of the Salk vaccine |
| 55% | CELEB | 5 | Target of the paparazzi, for short |
| 55% | BANK | 4 | Target of the Dodd-Frank Act |
| 55% | SMOG | 4 | Target of the Clean Air Act |
| 55% | TRUST | 5 | Target of the 1890 Sherman Act |
| 55% | BANKS | 5 | Targets of the Dodd-Frank Act |
| 54% | ACNE | 4 | Target of the skin cream Retin-A |
| 54% | TSAR | 4 | Plot target of the Decembrists |
| 53% | CUBA | 4 | Target of the U.S.-backed Radio Martí |
| 53% | MEAT | 4 | Inspection target of the 61-Across |
| 53% | MUMPS | 5 | One target of the MMR vaccine |
| 53% | CONNOR | 6 | Sarah, original target of The Terminator |
| 53% | RUBELLA | 7 | A target of the MMR vaccine |
| 53% | TETANUS | 7 | One target of the DPT vaccine |
| 52% | GDANSK | 6 | Birthplace of the Solidarity movement |
| 52% | HENRIMATISSE | 12 | Leader of the Fauvist movement |
| 52% | EMERSON | 7 | Leader of the Transcendentalism movement |
| 52% | PEACE | 5 | Goal of the antiwar movement |
| 52% | EBB | 3 | One of the tidal movements |
| 50% | ONEPERCENT | 10 | Target of many “tax the rich” proposals |
| 50% | ABS | 3 | Targets of “crunch time” at the gym |
| 50% | EARTH | 5 | "War of the Worlds" target |
| 49% | WASP | 4 | Target of some humor in The New Yorker |
| 49% | ROSA | 4 | Parks of the civil rights movement |
| 49% | EMAIL | 5 | Topic of the "inbox zero" movement |