| 100% | SILVERAGE | 9 | The second of the five eras of man, as per Hesiod |
| 45% | WHAT | 4 | The second of the five W's |
| 45% | ANGER | 5 | Second of the five stages of grief |
| 43% | ANGER | 5 | Second of the five stages of grief, in the Kübler-Ross model |
| 42% | ORDOVICIAN | 10 | Second period of the Palaeozoic era of geologic time |
| 40% | ADAM | 4 | First man as per the bible |
| 38% | CANAAN | 6 | The "Land of Promise," as per the Bible |
| 37% | YEAR | 4 | ___ of the pig (2019, as per the Chinese calendar) |
| 37% | USHERSIN | 8 | Signals the arrival of, as a new era |
| 37% | EMMANUEL | 8 | Jesus' alias, as per the gospel of Matthew |
| 37% | ARTIST | 6 | James Joyce's "A Portrait of the ___ as a Young Man" |
| 36% | RAT | 3 | Year of the ____ (2020, as per the Chinese calendar) |
| 36% | CICERO | 6 | "The greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophers," per Voltaire |
| 36% | EQUAL | 5 | How all men are created, per the Declaration of Independence |
| 36% | USHERIN | 7 | Mark the beginning of, as a new era (2 wds.) |
| 36% | ARAFAT | 6 | Co-designee as Time's 1993 Man of the Year |
| 36% | JOYCE | 5 | "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" author |
| 36% | PILGRIMAGE | 10 | The fifth of the Five Pillars of Islam |
| 35% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | It sang in the dead of night, as per The Beatles |
| 35% | DAUMIER | 7 | One of the most important men in modern art, per Baudelaire |
| 35% | PORTRAIT | 8 | "A ___ of the Artist as a Young Man" (James Joyce novel) |
| 35% | DEDALUS | 7 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man protagonist Stephen |
| 35% | ACT | 3 | Statute passed by the parliament of the Isle of Man is known as an ___ of Tynwald |
| 35% | THABO | 5 | ___ Mbeki, former politician who served as the second President of South Africa |
| 35% | DOCSAVAGE | 9 | Fictional hero known as the Man of Bronze |
| 35% | CAL | 3 | Ripken known as the "Iron Man" of baseball |
| 35% | MINGUS | 6 | Charles known as the "Angry Man of Jazz" |
| 35% | TELLMEABOUTYOURSELF | 19 | ___? pron. a form of the second person singular, used as an intensive or a reflexive |
| 34% | GRAF | 4 | Winner of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second-most in the Open Era |
| 34% | DEDALUS | 7 | Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |