| 100% | PASTORALS | 9 | The poems in Spenser's "The Shepheardes Calender," e.g. |
| 47% | NUDES | 5 | The Graces in Raphael's "The Three Graces," e.g. |
| 44% | INN | 3 | The Elephant in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," e.g. |
| 42% | ARPEGGIO | 8 | The piano hook in Adele’s “Someone Like You,” e.g. |
| 42% | CAMEO | 5 | Martin Scorsese's role in Killers of the Flower Moon, e.g. |
| 42% | ENL | 3 | In the U.S.M.C., e.g. |
| 41% | INN | 3 | The Boar's Head in "Henry IV," e.g. |
| 41% | NGO | 3 | The Children's Defense Fund, e.g., in brief |
| 41% | OWL | 3 | The bird Duo in Duolingo's logo, e.g. |
| 41% | SKI | 3 | Compete in the Super G, e.g. |
| 40% | OGRE | 4 | The giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk," e.g. |
| 40% | TIMEMACHINE | 11 | The DeLorean in "Back to the Future," e.g. |
| 40% | ANIME | 5 | Mamoru Oshii's "Ghost in the Shell," e.g. |
| 40% | IONIC | 5 | Order in the Supreme Court's courtroom, e.g. |
| 40% | HEISTS | 6 | Robberies in the "Ocean's Eleven" films, e.g. |
| 40% | LURE | 4 | The fly in fly-fishing, e.g. |
| 39% | WASTELAND | 9 | The —, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 |
| 39% | REEDS | 5 | The duck and the cat in Peter and the Wolf, e.g. |
| 39% | PROPS | 5 | Yorick's skull in "Hamlet" and the dagger in "Macbeth," e.g. |
| 39% | CAMEO | 5 | Stephen King's role as the minister in "Pet Sematary," e.g. |
| 39% | POPSTAR | 7 | Musician who's often in the Top 40, e.g. (2 wds.) |
| 39% | SEPTET | 6 | The swans in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," e.g. |
| 39% | REBUS | 5 | The heart in "I Love New York" signs, e.g. |
| 39% | SPRITES | 7 | The Rhinemaidens in the "Ring" cycle, e.g. |
| 39% | MANEATERS | 9 | The sharks in the "Jaws" franchise, e.g. |
| 39% | NBCTV | 5 | It's headquartered in the G.E. Building |
| 39% | INN | 3 | The Tabard in "The Canterbury Tales," e.g. |
| 39% | OCTET | 5 | The kids in "Eight Is Enough," e.g. |
| 39% | TRIO | 4 | The witches in "Macbeth," e.g. |
| 39% | DISCS | 5 | The winks in tiddlywinks, e.g. |