100% | BRIDES | 6 | There are more of these in the U.S. in October than any other month, surprisingly |
51% | ETAL | 4 | The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case |
44% | CAPTIVITY | 9 | There are more tigers in this than in the wild |
43% | ADO | 3 | There was much of this in Shakespeare |
41% | CHANGS | 6 | There are more of these than Smiths or Joneses |
41% | CANADA | 6 | Most of the world's lakes are in this country |
40% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
40% | SAND | 4 | *Did you know that there are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of ___ on Earth? |
40% | HOUSES | 6 | There are 12 of these (domiciles) in the horoscope |
39% | CONSONANTS | 10 | There are six of these in the middle of 17- and 56-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
39% | BIBLE | 5 | With 4-Down, much of the Southeast U.S. is in it |
38% | SNOW | 4 | "It's the first ___ of the year! The holiday season is upon us! Look out for fun hidden themes throughout this month in DTC!" |
38% | ADO | 3 | There's much of this in Shakespeare |
38% | SEAS | 4 | There are more than seven of these bodies of water |
37% | IDAHO | 5 | Source of more than half of the trout sold in the U.S. |
37% | MASS | 4 | Boston is the Capital of this US State in the northeastern U.S. |
37% | ANTS | 4 | There are more than 10,000 known species of these insects |
37% | UCLA | 4 | It had more freshman applicants in 2023 than any other U.S. university (145,910) |
37% | SEP | 3 | Wm. H. Taft was the only U.S. president born in this month |
37% | ASIA | 4 | Much of the Silk Road is in this continent |
36% | ANTIHERO | 8 | Taylor Swift song that was 20th on Spotify's 2023 list of most-streamed songs of the summer in the U.S. (Hyph.) |
36% | SMITH | 5 | Most common surname in the U.S. (ahead of Johnson and Williams) |
36% | LIAM | 4 | Most popular boys’ name of 2022, in the U.S. |
36% | AIDS | 4 | There are over 1.2 million people in the US who are living with this disease, 1 in 8 of them don't know they have it yet |
36% | ATM | 3 | Installation of October 1997 in Canada's capital was the world's first talking one of these |
36% | COLLEEN | 7 | Hoover whose book “It Ends With Us” sold more than eight hundred thousand copies in the month after the August, 2024, release of its film adaptation |
36% | YOUPROOF | 8 | Morgen Wallen song that was 10th on Spotify's 2023 list of most-streamed songs of the summer in the U.S. (2 wds.) |
36% | WASTEDONYOU | 11 | Morgen Wallen song that was 17th on Spotify's 2023 list of most-streamed songs of the summer in the U.S. (3 wds.) |
36% | CRUELSUMMER | 11 | Taylor Swift song that was third on Spotify's 2023 list of most-streamed songs of the summer in the U.S. (2 wds.) |
36% | CHESS | 5 | Game for which there are more possible iterations than atoms in the universe |