| 100% | SELAH | 5 | Word of uncertain meaning that appears in the Bible seventy-four times |
| 49% | DIE | 3 | Word that appears in the titles of three Bond films (or four, if you count one ending in “s”) |
| 44% | SCORE | 5 | Word meaning "twenty" that appears in the Gettysburg Address |
| 43% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 42% | MAD | 3 | Word that appears four times in a 1963 film title |
| 42% | NOR | 3 | Word appearing four times in the Fifth Amendment |
| 42% | MAD | 3 | Word that appears four times in a 1963 comedy film title |
| 40% | DEAL | 4 | Word that appears twice in the name of a game show hosted by Howie Mandel |
| 40% | COMMA | 5 | Punctuation mark that might appear many times in a long list of words |
| 40% | ADO | 3 | Word meaning "excitement" that's in the title of a Shakespeare play |
| 40% | ADO | 3 | Word meaning "commotion" that's in the title of a Shakespeare comedy |
| 40% | ESTHER | 6 | Book of the Bible in which the word "God" never appears |
| 39% | HATE | 4 | Word repeated four times in the chorus of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" |
| 39% | QUIZ | 4 | Highest-scoring four-letter word in Scrabble that also means a kind of a test |
| 39% | BEGAT | 5 | Word appearing 39 times in the genealogical list of Matthew 1 |
| 38% | BEGAT | 5 | Word appearing 39 times in the King James Version of Matthew 1 |
| 38% | SANS | 4 | Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech |
| 38% | THY | 3 | Word used three times in the first four lines of the Lord's Prayer |
| 38% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird that appears in the Great Seal on the back of a dollar bill |
| 37% | AMEN | 4 | Word that appears in the New Testament ... and in the phrase "New Testament" |
| 37% | PERSONALAD | 10 | Where "Desperately Seeking Susan" appears in the film of that name |
| 37% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 37% | ETTU | 4 | Words of disbelief found in the four longest Across entries |
| 36% | ALLAH | 5 | Name that appears 2,698 times in the Quran |
| 36% | SOAPBOX | 7 | Platform ... or something that appears four times in this puzzle? |
| 36% | ANTONYM | 7 | Word that means the opposite of another word |
| 36% | CITY | 4 | Word in the names of four state capitals |
| 35% | GIFT | 4 | Traditional 61-Across surprise, aptly boxed, and spelled with the only four letters of the alphabet that don't appear elsewhere in this grid |
| 35% | END | 3 | Word that appears on the last frame of most old movies |
| 35% | ALE | 3 | Drink mentioned four times in the prologue of "The Canterbury Tales" |