| 100% | BOWDLER | 7 | Thomas —, English publisher of an 1818 expurgated version of The Family Shakespeare |
| 35% | MALTHUS | 7 | Thomas —, English economist who authored 1798's An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 33% | GOODNEWS | 8 | __ Bible, modern English version of the text |
| 33% | ANI | 3 | Hebrew version of the English pronoun "I" |
| 31% | ACUTANGLEE | 10 | Version of the "Hulk" director with an impressively chiseled set of abs? |
| 31% | BBC | 3 | English network that aired the original version of "The Office" |
| 31% | CORLEONE | 8 | The surname of an Italian family depicted in films |
| 30% | NEWPLACE | 8 | Name of the Shakespeares' family home in Stratford |
| 30% | ZEE | 3 | Second-to-last letter, before ampersand, in an obsolete version of the alphabet |
| 30% | ARE | 3 | First word in the English version of "Frère Jacques" |
| 30% | DEADTREE | 8 | Like the print version of an e-book, say |
| 30% | TALLIS | 6 | Thomas __, the father of English cathedral music |
| 30% | DEQUINCEY | 9 | Thomas —, author of 1821 autobiographical work Confessions of an English Opium Eater |
| 29% | MUSEUM | 6 | Site of an art heist in The Thomas Crown Affair |
| 29% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | Day of the week that's an Addams Family girl |
| 29% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | Day of the week who's an Addams family member |
| 29% | LALLANS | 7 | Literary version of the variety of English spoken and written in the Lowlands of Scotland |
| 29% | APOCRYPHA | 9 | Books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in certain versions of the Bible |
| 29% | SABOT | 5 | French clog … and the root of an English word meaning "disrupt" |
| 29% | ROOTS | 5 | 1976 Alex Haley novel subtitled The Saga of an American Family |
| 29% | RICE | 4 | Plant of the grass family whose seed is an edible grain |
| 29% | FAIRFAX | 7 | Thomas —, English parliamentary general; Commander-in-Chief of the New Model Army from 1645 |
| 29% | PISTACHIO | 9 | Tree of the cashew family whose nuts have an edible green kernel |
| 29% | ARNE | 4 | Thomas ___, an English composer known for the song "Rule, Britannia" |
| 28% | APRIL | 5 | "The uncertain glory of an ___ day": Shakespeare |
| 28% | TEATREE | 7 | Member of the myrtle family that's the source of an essential oil |
| 28% | WYCLIFFE | 8 | John ___, English philosopher and theologian who made an early translation of the Bible |
| 28% | ANNE | 4 | "___ Boleyn," 2021 period drama series based on the life of an English Queen |
| 28% | PRINCECHARLES | 13 | Member of the British royal family who's an accomplished painter: 2 wds. |
| 28% | KYD | 3 | English author of "The Spanish Tragedy" Thomas ____ |