| 100% | USHERS | 6 | They will escort you to the seat in a theater |
| 53% | USHER | 5 | Person who shows you to your seat in a theater |
| 43% | BOX | 3 | Container (and, in a way, what you will find outlined by this year's clues related to the mega-meta) |
| 43% | ROW | 3 | Front ___ (seat location closest to the stage in a theater) |
| 42% | GUESTS | 6 | They are the people invited to a party |
| 41% | FOREIGNER | 9 | They were waiting for a girl like you in 1981 |
| 40% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 40% | LOANS | 5 | They may be a credit to you |
| 40% | USHERED | 7 | Escorted to a theater seat |
| 40% | IVS | 3 | They give you a shot in the arm |
| 40% | FANGS | 5 | They might be a pain in the neck |
| 40% | FELLS | 5 | While hill walking is a common outdoor activity in England, in the Lake District, you're more likely to be walking one of these |
| 39% | LIBRARIAN | 9 | Person urges you to be quiet in a place with books |
| 39% | VISAS | 5 | They need to be in order at a border |
| 39% | SAUNA | 5 | Place to be in the hot seat? |
| 39% | WANT | 4 | "I ___ you to be my Valentine..." (words in a romantic letter, perhaps) |
| 39% | OBI | 3 | Something you might take a bow for in the theater? |
| 39% | ROW | 3 | You don't want to be in the last one |
| 39% | GEAR | 4 | You would change this to go reverse in a car |
| 39% | ASSES | 5 | They may be packed for a trip in the mountains |
| 39% | IRONS | 5 | You might have a lot of them in the fire |
| 39% | BOOED | 5 | Reacted to a bad performance in the theater |
| 38% | DRONE | 5 | Male bee in a colony whose function is to mate with the queen |
| 38% | AGITATE | 7 | What "singer" in seat next to you will do |
| 38% | RBI | 3 | In baseball, the plays that allow a run to be scored |
| 38% | ADS | 3 | They often precede the previews in a movie theater |
| 38% | SADIST | 6 | One inclined to be a pain in the ass? |
| 38% | ASPS | 4 | The snakes in Indiana Jones' "Why do they have to be snakes?" |
| 38% | EWOKS | 5 | They thought C-3PO was a god in "Return of the Jedi" |
| 38% | SWIMMINGPOOL | 12 | You might dip a 25-Down in this to test the water |