| 100% | AIDA | 4 | The “A” in the so-called ABCs of Opera, the most-performed operas in the Met’s history |
| 43% | PETE | 4 | ___ Alonso, Mets slugger with the most home runs by a rookie in M.L.B. history (53) |
| 42% | CHARLESBURNETT | 14 | “Killer of Sheep” director, whom Ava DuVernay called “one of the most significant American directors in cinema history of any color, period” |
| 41% | NFL | 3 | Org. with the five most-watched telecasts in the history of U.S. television |
| 41% | FRANCE | 6 | Home of the most Literature Nobelists in history |
| 41% | NEMO | 4 | Film character who spends most of the movie in the waiting room of a dentist's office |
| 41% | MAINST | 6 | Sign in the heart of many a small town's downtown (2 wds.) |
| 40% | NORWAY | 6 | Country that's won the most medals in the history of the Winter Olympics |
| 40% | NFL | 3 | Org. behind 14 of the 15 most-watched TV broadcasts in U.S. history |
| 40% | MAYA | 4 | Moore whom Sports Illustrated called the "greatest winner in the history of women's basketball" |
| 40% | MOIST | 5 | Adjective that's been called "one of the most hated words in the English language" |
| 40% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 40% | MERYL | 5 | First name of the most nominated performer in Academy Awards history |
| 40% | PORTLAND | 8 | Name of the most populous city in a pair of states |
| 40% | HIDERS | 6 | Most of the kids in a certain kids' game |
| 40% | ACE | 3 | Most valuable card in a deck, the ___ of spades |
| 40% | GUESSING | 8 | Much of the activity in a game of charades |
| 39% | ETC | 3 | "And more of the same," in a list |
| 39% | QUASAR | 6 | One of a number of astronomical bodies thought to be the most luminous objects in the universe |
| 39% | WONDERFUL | 9 | How Andy Williams describes Christmas in a 1963 song? "It's the Most ___ Time of the Year" |
| 39% | MARILYNHORNE | 12 | Opera singer who performed at Clinton's 1993 inauguration and received the National Medal of Arts in 1992: 2 wds. |
| 39% | NEPAL | 5 | Land in the so-called "Roof of the World" |
| 39% | TOOL | 4 | One of the many in a Swiss Army knife |
| 39% | LANES | 5 | Word in the name of many a bowling alley |
| 39% | CASE | 4 | Word in the title of many a detective novel |
| 39% | AGRA | 4 | City where many copies of Dainik Jagran are circulated (and a city hidden in the newspaper's name) |
| 39% | ARES | 4 | Whom Zeus calls the most hateful of all the Olympian gods, in the Iliad |
| 38% | RACHELGREEN | 11 | Jennifer Aniston's character from her decade long show, who gave the world one of the most popular hairstyles in history: 2 wds. |
| 38% | DANCE | 5 | Part of many a touchdown celebration in the end zone |
| 38% | ARLES | 5 | Word in the title of many a van Gogh painting |