| 100% | MAO | 3 | This person's portrait was egged in the '89 Tiananmen Square protests |
| 39% | CAPTAIN | 7 | This person is in command of the ship |
| 39% | CUSTOMER | 8 | In the retail mantra, this person is always right |
| 36% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 36% | TWENTYNINTHOFFEBRUARY | 21 | When the people featured in this puzzle were born |
| 36% | SSE | 3 | Ostro-Scirocco is inscribed on this compass point marker on the wind rose in St. Peter's Square |
| 35% | BEHOLDER | 8 | Beauty is in the eye of this person |
| 34% | NAVY | 4 | The Village People were "In" this |
| 34% | MADAMSPEAKER | 12 | *Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress |
| 34% | BIRTHYEAR | 9 | What the number in brackets is for the people featured in this puzzle |
| 34% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 33% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 33% | TWOPEASINAPOD | 13 | Similar people ... who are getting a little too close in six squares of this puzzle? |
| 33% | JURASSIC | 8 | The park in Spielberg's dinosaur movie was this |
| 32% | MEANTIME | 8 | In the ___ (while this is happening) |
| 32% | SATS | 4 | Tests that, in the U.S., will be administered digitally starting this year |
| 32% | VERSATILE | 9 | The V in DVD was originally video, now it's this |
| 32% | DENMARK | 7 | This country's flag is the oldest in the world |
| 32% | NOISE | 5 | Despite being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, Radiohead still produces this, to many people |
| 32% | CUSTOMER | 8 | This person is always right, in business |
| 32% | DEMONS | 6 | In the Bible, these are fallen angels |
| 32% | EWER | 4 | Some people suspect there are crocodiles living in the New York City s___s |
| 31% | HEN | 3 | In the UK, this party is for bachelorettes |
| 31% | WEE | 3 | In the ___ hours (when most people are asleep) |
| 31% | ELON | 4 | Musk who was Time's Person of the Year in 2021 |
| 31% | EXORCIST | 8 | This person will take the devil out of you |
| 31% | PURSE | 5 | In the Boston Marathon this was over $830,500 |
| 31% | STRAITARTIST | 12 | Person painting a portrait of the “All My Ex’s Live in Texas” singer? |
| 31% | MALL | 4 | The world's largest one is in Chengdu, China (covering 18 million square feet) |
| 31% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |