| 100% | ESSES | 5 | Word containing three of itself |
| 53% | ESS | 3 | Word containing itself twice |
| 49% | YES | 3 | Three of the last seven words in Ulysses |
| 47% | YESES | 5 | Three of the last seven words in Joyce's "Ulysses" |
| 45% | PLACE | 5 | Word in the names of three Monopoly properties |
| 45% | ICE | 3 | Word in the center of all three long entries |
| 44% | DOT | 3 | One of three in the word Fiji |
| 44% | DOT | 3 | Any of three in the word "Beijing" |
| 44% | DOT | 3 | Any of three in the word "Fiji" |
| 44% | PLEA | 4 | Word that, fittingly, contains all four different letters of APPEAL |
| 43% | ALEPH | 5 | Starting word containing five of the letters of what it starts |
| 43% | YES | 3 | Word spoken three times in the last seven words of “Ulysses” |
| 43% | TOY | 3 | First word in the titles of three Pixar movies |
| 43% | ALL | 3 | First and last word of the Three Musketeers' motto |
| 43% | HONOR | 5 | Second of three words in West Point's motto |
| 43% | IOWEYOU | 7 | Note of three words promising to pay a debt |
| 42% | DENY | 4 | It's all three words of a liar's policy |
| 42% | IAMSAM | 6 | First three words of "Green Eggs and Ham" (3 wds.) |
| 41% | LIEU | 4 | Word with three consecutive vowels, used as "in ___ of" to mean "instead of" |
| 40% | SOAMI | 5 | Three-word phrase of agreement |
| 40% | THY | 3 | Word used three times in the first four lines of the Lord's Prayer |
| 40% | HIDDENCARBS | 11 | Bane of a ketogenic diet, and what three long puzzle answers contain |
| 40% | INAND | 5 | ___ of itself |
| 39% | IAMSAM | 6 | First three words of 31-Across's "Green Eggs and Ham" (3 wds.) |
| 39% | IAMSAM | 6 | The first three words of "Green Eggs and Ham," straight from the narrator |
| 39% | AKIND | 5 | Three of ___ |
| 39% | NOUN | 4 | Word that's an example of itself |
| 39% | STIFLE | 6 | Word that's an anagram of itself |
| 38% | ARLENE | 6 | Dahl of "Three Little Words" |
| 38% | BAA | 3 | First word of the nursery rhyme that contains the line "Have you any wool?" |