| 100% | SPOONER | 7 | W A —, English clergyman renowned for his transposition of the initial consonants of a pair of words in a sentence |
| 35% | BRENDANFRASER | 13 | Best Actor Oscar winner for his portrayal of a reclusive English teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter in the 2022 film "The Whale" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | SYNTAX | 6 | The correct arrangement of words in a sentence |
| 34% | IOTA | 4 | Vowel-rich name of the English word for a Greek vowel |
| 34% | UPON | 4 | Word in the first sentence of a fairy tale |
| 34% | AGENTNOUN | 9 | In grammar, a word for the performer of a verb |
| 33% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the reverend with a January holiday in his honor |
| 33% | EBWHITE | 7 | Author whose last name's first letter, followed by the two initials that precede his last name, form a word in one of his most famous titles |
| 33% | PHRASE | 6 | Group of words in a sentence |
| 32% | SPADE | 5 | One of the suits in a deck of cards, also word for shovel |
| 32% | REEPEATS | 8 | The Chicago Bulls had a pair of them in the 1990s |
| 32% | CASHMERE | 8 | Kind of expensive wool, the word for which comes from the Sanskrit word "Kashmir," a place in the Himalayas |
| 32% | CRUCIATE | 8 | A pair of ligaments in the human knee |
| 32% | DUNKIRK | 7 | English name for the port in Nord, France, that saw a mass evacuation of troops in 1940 |
| 31% | PULL | 4 | Word on the front door of the Midvale School for the Gifted, in a famous "Far Side" cartoon |
| 31% | GIMME | 5 | Word repeated thrice in the title of a 1979 ABBA song that asks for "A Man After Midnight" |
| 31% | NASEBY | 6 | Village in Northamptonshire; site of a 1645 victory for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War |
| 31% | CYAN | 4 | Color for the right eye of a pair of 3-D glasses |
| 31% | BLOOM | 5 | Orlando ___, "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor who skydived in a wingsuit for his show "To the Edge" |
| 31% | SOCK | 4 | One of a pair often lost in the laundry |
| 30% | SPELLING | 8 | The agreed sequence of letters in a word |
| 30% | TONSIL | 6 | One of a pair of masses of tissue in the throat |
| 30% | LARUE | 5 | Lash known for his use of the bullwhip in old Westerns |
| 30% | CANDIDA | 7 | Comedy play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1894 that revolves around the lives of a clergyman and his wife |
| 30% | ULNAE | 5 | Pair in the upper part of a human skeleton |
| 30% | RAPGOD | 6 | Eminem song which holds the world record for most words in a hit single with an average of 4.28 words per second: 2 wds. |
| 30% | CANISTEALYOUFORASECOND | 22 | Request for one-on-one time in the "Bachelor" TV franchise … or a phonetic hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 30% | ELDAD | 5 | One of a pair of prophets mentioned in the Book of Numbers |
| 30% | CLOG | 4 | One of a pair in the mule family? |
| 30% | VOCAB | 5 | All the words in a language, for short |