| 100% | FREEPR | 6 | Unsolicited mentions online, in the press, etc. |
| 42% | SLAMS | 5 | Attacks in the press, say |
| 41% | FLEETSTREET | 11 | The press, in Britain |
| 41% | SMEARS | 6 | Sullies someone's name in the press |
| 41% | OPCIT | 5 | In the work mentioned (Abbr.) |
| 41% | ABOVECITED | 10 | Mentioned earlier in the text |
| 40% | OPCIT | 5 | In the previously mentioned work, briefly |
| 39% | CCS | 3 | Keeps in the loop, online |
| 39% | XXXXX | 5 | In the work mentioned earlier, in footnote abbreviations |
| 38% | CETERA | 6 | The "c" in etc. |
| 38% | CETERA | 6 | The c in etc. |
| 38% | BELOW | 5 | Mentioned in the following paragraphs |
| 37% | MEET | 4 | "___ the Press" (longest-running US TV program in history) |
| 37% | TONY | 4 | ___ Stark, character in the movie mentioned in 6d |
| 37% | POUND | 5 | Currency used in the country mentioned in 9a |
| 37% | ATS | 3 | Mentions in the comments, on Twitter |
| 37% | EDEN | 4 | Garden mentioned early in the Bible |
| 37% | GALILEO | 7 | The astronomer mentioned in Bohemian Rhapsody |
| 37% | TON | 3 | Weight measure found in the name mentioned in 5d |
| 36% | SATURDAY | 8 | The 24-hour period mentioned in SNL |
| 36% | DOYENNE | 7 | Helen Thomas in the White House press corps, e.g. |
| 36% | THREADBEAR | 10 | Grizzly mentioned in an online forum? |
| 36% | GORY | 4 | Like the movie mentioned in 30a |
| 35% | OVALTINE | 8 | Brand mentioned in "You're the Top" |
| 35% | EGGMAN | 6 | Fellow mentioned in "I Am the Walrus" |
| 35% | ESAU | 4 | Twin mentioned in Epistle to the Hebrews |
| 35% | NEWT | 4 | Creature mentioned by the witches in "Macbeth" |
| 35% | IDEM | 4 | The same as mentioned, in Latin |
| 35% | LOTUS | 5 | Fruit mentioned in the "Odyssey" |
| 35% | INDUS | 5 | River mentioned in the Rigveda |