| 100% | EROTIC | 6 | With “the,” “that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge,” per Audre Lorde |
| 33% | ELITES | 6 | Those with the greatest power and status |
| 29% | WAVE | 4 | What that rises from the sea and breaks on the shore |
| 28% | NYC | 3 | Song from the musical "Annie" that Daddy Warbucks starts singing along with Grace and Annie |
| 27% | MUSIC | 5 | ___ streaming, 2000s cultural phenomenon that began with Napster and saw the rise of apps like Spotify and Tidal |
| 27% | INS | 3 | Connections with the powers that be |
| 26% | BAR | 3 | Reptar ___, Chocolate from "The Rugrats Movie" that is filled with green gunk which will make the tongue go all green! |
| 25% | POP | 3 | ___ art, art movement that originated in the UK and US during the mid-to late 1950s which includes elements taken from mass culture |
| 25% | ITINA | 5 | Rock memoir with the chapters "Nut Bush" and "River Deep" |
| 25% | THEIDOL | 7 | 2023 HBO series with The Weeknd and Lily Rose Depp |
| 25% | MALESORTER | 10 | That which separates the men from the boys? |
| 25% | ARENDELLE | 9 | The kingdom that Anna and Elsa are from |
| 25% | ESTE | 4 | Dirección from which the sun rises |
| 25% | EAST | 4 | Direction from which the sun rises |
| 25% | PYRE | 4 | Location from which the phoenix rose |
| 25% | ENER | 4 | Cabinet dept. with all the power? |
| 25% | LUGE | 4 | Winter Olympic sport which is also a small one or two person sled that rhymes with "huge" and was first played in the 1870s |
| 25% | MOCKINGBIRD | 11 | "To Kill a ___," bestselling debut novel by Harper Lee published in 1960 that deals with race and gender issues in the American Deep South |
| 25% | LORDE | 5 | Singer with the albums "Pure Heroine" (2013) and "Solar Power" (2021) |
| 25% | TIDAL | 5 | Having to do with the rise and fall of the sea |
| 25% | BEOUR | 5 | With 35-Across, Oscar-nominated song from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" that lost to that movie's title song: 2 wds. |
| 24% | EDEN | 4 | Biblical garden with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil |
| 24% | OLD | 3 | With 19-Across, language from which "steak" and "eggs" come |
| 24% | ITAL | 4 | From the nation that gave us pizza and Parmesan: Abbr. |
| 24% | SOLAR | 5 | Renewable energy that harnesses power from the sun |
| 24% | NUPTIALS | 8 | Weddings and the celebrations that go with them |
| 24% | PHOENIX | 7 | Bird that rises from the ashes |
| 24% | FRENCHBRAID | 11 | Production with contributions from the right and the left? |
| 24% | JUGULAR | 7 | Vein that drains blood from the brain and face |
| 24% | SEAMOUNT | 8 | Elevation that rises from the ocean floor |