| 100% | NEW | 3 | The ___ Yorker, magazine that published a fictional cartoon from "Seinfeld" in a caption contest |
| 35% | BASEBALL | 8 | Men's bat-and-ball sport that was contested in the Olympics from 1992-2008 and will make a return in 2020 |
| 35% | AARP | 4 | Group that publishes the two most-read magazines in the US |
| 34% | YES | 3 | Exclamation in a popular "Sickos" cartoon from The Onion |
| 34% | PISTACHIO | 9 | Nut from the cashew family that is enclosed in a shell |
| 33% | TIME | 4 | News magazine that runs a "Person of the Year" feature that released its first issue in 1923 |
| 33% | GENIE | 5 | Fictional character from the film "Aladdin" that comes out of a lamp and grants wishes |
| 33% | SLAG | 4 | Something left over from the Bessemer process that could be used in fertilizer or as a cement additive |
| 33% | PODRACING | 9 | Fictional sport in "Star Wars" that is a contest of speed between small one-man spacecraft |
| 33% | CLUTCH | 6 | Device in a car that transmits the drive from the engine to the gearbox |
| 32% | BETELNUTS | 9 | Stimulants that originate from a plant found in the Philippines |
| 32% | SNAIL | 5 | Animal that falls in love with a tape dispenser, in a classic New Yorker cartoon |
| 32% | MOE | 3 | Flaming ___, fictional cocktail drink from "The Simpsons" that shares a name with the series' bartender |
| 32% | DACAPO | 6 | Musical instruction that a piece be repeated, in part or whole, from the beginning |
| 32% | EAR | 3 | Auditory organ that might be drawn as a "C" in the cartoons |
| 31% | ADDAMS | 6 | "The ___ Family," multimedia franchise based on a Gothic cartoon family that took over cereal boxes in the '90s |
| 31% | WALL | 4 | "Hole in the ___," show that moved from Fox to Cartoon Network in 2010 |
| 31% | RIT | 3 | School in Henrietta that publishes the Reporter Magazine each month during the school year and daily on-line (abbr.) |
| 31% | TIME | 4 | Magazine that chooses a Person of the Year |
| 31% | TIME | 4 | Magazine that names a Person of the Year |
| 31% | TIME | 4 | Magazine that awards a Person of the Year |
| 30% | BEAT | 4 | "___ It," a hit single from Michael Jackson's album in 16a that won a Grammy for "Record of the Year" |
| 30% | CHICAGO | 7 | & 1A Basketball team that won the NBA Finals three times in a row twice, from 1991-93 and 1996-98 |
| 30% | ENIWETOK | 8 | Pacific Ocean atoll taken by the US from Japan in 1944 that later became a testing ground for atomic weapons |
| 30% | SPONGEBOB | 9 | Cartoon who lives in a pineapple under the sea |
| 30% | CLOSEST | 7 | Like the winner in a guessing contest |
| 30% | REM | 3 | Band that took its name from a stage of sleep Michael Stipe found in the dictionary |
| 30% | PAPARAZZI | 9 | Term that comes from the name of a news photographer in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” |
| 30% | ESSENCE | 7 | Monthly magazine that sponsors a large annual music festival in New Orleans |
| 30% | STOP | 4 | ___ motion, feature that makes a video from pictures taken in a sequence |