| 100% | VORTEX | 6 | Whirling mass of air, with a vacuum at the center |
| 47% | MINOTAUR | 8 | Figure at the center of a maze |
| 47% | PIT | 3 | Stone at the center of a fruit |
| 46% | STAR | 4 | Symbol at the center of a Scrabble board |
| 46% | ENRON | 5 | Company at the center of a 2001 scandal |
| 46% | EYE | 3 | Calm region at the center of a storm |
| 46% | CATWALK | 7 | Platform at the center of a fashion show |
| 46% | NET | 3 | Item at the center of a pickleball court |
| 46% | VORTEX | 6 | A whirling mass of fluid or air |
| 46% | IRAN | 4 | Country at the center of a 2015 nuclear deal |
| 46% | ENRON | 5 | Houston company at the center of a 2001 scandal |
| 46% | EYE | 3 | Mostly calm weather at the center of a storm |
| 45% | NCAA | 4 | Sports org. at the center of a 2021 antitrust ruling |
| 45% | TULIP | 5 | Flower at the center of a financial bubble in the 1630s |
| 45% | TULIP | 5 | Flower at the center of a seventeenth-century Dutch market crash |
| 44% | RUPP | 4 | ___ Arena, Kentucky sporting venue at the center of a 2020 renaming debate |
| 44% | UGGS | 4 | Boots at the center of a recent U.S./Australia trademark battle |
| 44% | MANHATTAN | 9 | Borough at the center of a beleaguered congestion-pricing plan in 2024 |
| 44% | IMAGINE | 7 | Word at the center of a mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields |
| 44% | CUBANO | 6 | Sandwich at the center of a long-running rivalry between Miami and Tampa |
| 43% | POPPET | 6 | Valve with a disc at the end of a vertically set stem |
| 43% | KNEECAP | 7 | Protective bone at the front and center of a leg |
| 43% | SUN | 3 | *Star at the center of our solar system, and a bright name for a newspaper |
| 43% | GROUPHUG | 8 | Mass at the end of a team meeting, perhaps |
| 42% | APU | 3 | "The Simpsons" character at the center of a 2017 documentary about Indian stereotypes |
| 42% | TABS | 4 | Projections at the top of a browser window with multiple pages open |
| 42% | ATLAS | 5 | Figure of Greek myth with a statue at Rockefeller Center |
| 42% | NEUTRON | 7 | Uncharged elementary particle with a mass nearly equal to that of the proton |
| 41% | EXAM | 4 | Test at the end of an academic year, with a name originating from Latin |