| 100% | FACTOID | 7 | Term coined by Norman Mailer to describe facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper |
| 25% | TYPESET | 7 | Like words in a magazine or newspaper |
| 24% | CAMEO | 5 | Term used to describe a brief appearance by a celebrity in a TV show |
| 24% | KENDALLJENNER | 13 | Model who appeared in a Pepsi commercial which had to be later removed due to a lot of backlash in 2017: 2 wds. |
| 23% | RES | 3 | ___ judicata (case in which there has been a final judgment and is no longer subject to appeal) |
| 23% | ADFEE | 5 | Charge to appear in a magazine |
| 23% | STARRED | 7 | To have appeared as the lead in a movie or play |
| 22% | ESSAY | 5 | Think piece in a newspaper or magazine |
| 21% | BREAKEVEN | 9 | Have no profit or loss, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 21% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 21% | EDITOR | 6 | Person in charge of a newspaper or magazine |
| 21% | AUTONYM | 7 | A word or name by which a group refers to itself |
| 21% | EDITOR | 6 | The person in charge of a newspaper or magazine |
| 20% | READ | 4 | Enjoy a magazine or newspaper |
| 20% | LSD | 3 | Pitcher Dock Ellis claimed to have used this before throwing a no-hitter in 1970 |
| 20% | ZOSO | 4 | Led Zep's fourth album which had no title and was released in 1971 was often referred to as this |
| 20% | PULLOUT | 7 | Detachable section of a magazine or newspaper |
| 20% | ADPAGE | 6 | Sponsored part of a magazine or newspaper |
| 20% | TEARSHEET | 9 | Page removed from a magazine or newspaper |
| 20% | SCORIGAMI | 9 | Portmanteau coined by Jon Bois for a numerical game result that has never occurred in NFL history |
| 19% | ARTICLE | 7 | A short written piece in a newspaper or magazine |
| 19% | DRAG | 4 | Term in physics for the retarding force exerted by air or fluid surrounding a moving object |
| 19% | ALLEYOOP | 8 | Sports term thought to derive from a phrase cried by French acrobats before leaping |
| 19% | ETHER | 5 | Anesthetic that used to be used by dentists, or a term for the sky |
| 19% | BIDET | 5 | Item which recently has seen a jump in sales due to toilet paper hoarding |
| 19% | GIRLSLIKEYOU | 12 | Maroon 5 song from 2018 which has a cameo by Ellen DeGeneres in its official music video: 3 wds. |
| 19% | BARD | 4 | Term for a person hired by a nobleman in medieval times to compose verses in his praise |
| 19% | LETIN | 5 | Letters which one will have to unjumble to mean information a spy collects or "intel" |
| 19% | ELUC | 4 | Letters which one will have to unjumble to mean a spy's lead or "clue" |
| 19% | FISHHEAD | 8 | Ingredient in some Asian soup, or, literally, what each answer to a starred clue has |