| 100% | ASTAGE | 6 | The world, per the Bard |
| 72% | HAL | 3 | Henry V, per the Bard |
| 72% | OYSTER | 6 | The world, per ''Merry Wives'' . . . |
| 71% | STAGE | 5 | All the world, to the Bard |
| 71% | ASP | 3 | Cleo's ''baby,'' per the Bard |
| 70% | ETTU | 4 | Caesar’s dying rebuke, per the Bard |
| 68% | GIRLS | 5 | Ones running the world, per Beyoncé |
| 67% | BEAUTY | 6 | It ''provoketh thieves sooner than gold,'' per the Bard |
| 65% | FINNS | 5 | The world's happiest people, per the 2020 World Happiness Report |
| 65% | ART | 3 | "The only serious thing in the world," per Oscar Wilde |
| 65% | YUMA | 4 | World's sunniest city, per the World Meteorological Organization |
| 65% | IAGO | 4 | The Bard's ''being next to Devil,'' per Coleridge |
| 65% | CHEETODUST | 10 | The "glitter of the snack world," per Ellen DeGeneres |
| 65% | DATA | 4 | "The world's most valuable resource," per The Economist |
| 64% | STAGE | 5 | "All the world," per a famous line from Shakespeare |
| 63% | BROWNSKINGIRL | 13 | “The best thing in the world,” per a 2019 Beyoncé song |
| 63% | RIO | 3 | Site of the largest carnival in the world, per Guinness |
| 63% | DELHI | 5 | World's second most populous city, per the U.N. |
| 63% | STAGE | 5 | All the world's one, to the Bard |
| 62% | CALIFORNIAGIRLS | 15 | Per the Beach Boys, they're the cutest in the world |
| 62% | WINE | 4 | "One of the most civilized things in the world," per Hemingway |
| 62% | XIJINPING | 9 | The world's most powerful person, per a 2018 Forbes list |
| 62% | QATAR | 5 | It has the world's highest per capita income |
| 62% | QATARIS | 7 | Residents of the world's richest country per capita |
| 61% | WHIMPER | 7 | "This is the way the world ends," per 24-Across |
| 61% | BIGBANG | 7 | This is the way the world began, per 51-Across |
| 61% | ASIAN | 5 | Like about sixty per cent of the world’s population |
| 61% | MONEY | 5 | It makes the world go round, per a “Cabaret” song |
| 60% | CALIFORNIAGIRLS | 15 | They're the cutest in the world, per a hit song |
| 60% | AFRICA | 6 | Home to roughly seventeen per cent of the world’s population |