| 100% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 13-Across, Oxford's 2022 Word of the Year |
| 80% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 27 Across, Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022, defined as self-indulgent behavior |
| 63% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 60% | GOBLINMODE | 10 | Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year in 2022, describing an unapologetically self-indulgent state |
| 58% | RIZZ | 4 | Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year, defined as "style, charm, or attractiveness" |
| 56% | OED | 3 | Its 2022 Word of the Year was "goblin mode" (Abbr.) |
| 55% | CHARM | 5 | What "rizz," Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year, means |
| 54% | VAPE | 4 | Oxford English Dictionary's 2014 word of the year |
| 54% | VAX | 3 | Oxford Word of the Year for 2021 |
| 49% | PHRASE | 6 | Occasional Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, oddly |
| 49% | BRAINROT | 8 | 2024 Word of the Year, per Collins Dictionary (just the shaded squares) or Oxford (the entire entry) |
| 49% | ROT | 3 | Brain __: 2024 Oxford Word of the Year |
| 49% | AUTHENTIC | 9 | Merriam-Webster's 2023 word of the year |
| 48% | OED | 3 | It's 2021 word of the year was "vax" |
| 48% | OCASIO | 6 | With 13-Across, the "O" and "C" of the political world's A.O.C. |
| 46% | MONTHOFMAYBE | 12 | Part of the year that's filled with possibility? |
| 46% | ONE | 3 | Last word of the year |
| 46% | ONE | 3 | Last word of the year, often |
| 45% | PRIME | 5 | The best years of your life, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 45% | THEY | 4 | American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2015 |
| 45% | AUTHENTIC | 9 | Merriam-Webster's 2023 Word of the Year, defined as "not false or imitation" |
| 45% | BIDEN | 5 | Time's 2020 Person of the Year, along with Harris |
| 45% | EDWARDS | 7 | Jack, Blogosphere's 2022 Creator of the Year |
| 45% | ONE | 3 | "Three...two...___..." (last words of the year, often) |
| 44% | CENAT | 5 | 2022 Streamer of the Year Kai __ |
| 44% | GHOST | 5 | With 13 Across, chilis that are among the world's hottest |
| 44% | SWEETS | 6 | Nickname of trumpeter Harry Edison who spent 13 years with the Count Basie Orchestra |
| 43% | OED | 3 | Ref. work whose 2018 Word of the Year is "toxic" |
| 43% | OED | 3 | Its 2019 Word of the Year was "climate emergency" (Abbr.) |
| 43% | EMOJI | 5 | The Oxford Dictionaries 2015 "Word" of the Year is one |