| 100% | CHRIST | 6 | Word that first appears in Matthew 1:1 |
| 57% | BEGAT | 5 | Word appearing 39 times in the genealogical list of Matthew 1 |
| 56% | BEGAT | 5 | Word appearing 39 times in the King James Version of Matthew 1 |
| 52% | WASP | 4 | Insect that first appeared in the Jurassic era |
| 51% | ICECASTLE | 9 | Temporary structure that first appeared in 1740 in St. Petersburg |
| 50% | BEGAT | 5 | Often-used word in Matthew 1 |
| 50% | WHICH | 5 | Publication of the Consumers' Association that first appeared in October 1957 |
| 49% | BASIC | 5 | High-level computer programming language for beginners that first appeared in 1964 |
| 49% | DANDY | 5 | The —, British comic featuring Korky the Cat that first appeared in 1937 |
| 49% | STREAKYTHE | 10 | & 13D Feline pet of DC Comics character Supergirl that first appeared in 1960 |
| 47% | THESISSTATEMENT | 15 | Sentence that often appears in the first paragraph of an essay |
| 47% | NEE | 3 | French word for "born" that may appear in a marriage announcement |
| 47% | SCORE | 5 | Word meaning "twenty" that appears in the Gettysburg Address |
| 46% | MAD | 3 | Word that appears four times in a 1963 film title |
| 46% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 46% | DEAL | 4 | Word that appears twice in the name of a game show hosted by Howie Mandel |
| 46% | MAD | 3 | Word that appears four times in a 1963 comedy film title |
| 46% | ONE | 3 | Word that appears on a dime in both English and Latin |
| 46% | ADO | 3 | Word meaning "commotion" that appears in a Shakespeare play's title |
| 45% | SELAH | 5 | Word of uncertain meaning that appears in the Bible seventy-four times |
| 45% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 44% | AMEN | 4 | Word that appears in the New Testament ... and in the phrase "New Testament" |
| 44% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction that often appears two words after "neither" in a sentence |
| 44% | LEX | 3 | Column on the back page of the first section of the Financial Times that first appeared on October 1, 1945 |
| 43% | COMMA | 5 | Punctuation mark that might appear many times in a long list of words |
| 43% | AEIOU | 5 | Letters that appear once each in a supervocalic word |
| 42% | ABE | 3 | Bolivia's space agency that launched Bolivia's first satellite, Tupac Katari 1, in 2013 |
| 41% | OPUS | 4 | Word that first meant "labor" |
| 41% | THEEXCHANGE | 11 | 2023 novel by 41-Across that features lawyer Mitch McDeere, who first appeared in the 1991 novel "The Firm" (2 wds.) |