| 100% | ASIN | 4 | Words of explanation in spelling |
| 58% | REDRUM | 6 | Backwards spelling of a nasty word in The Shining |
| 57% | IDEST | 5 | Words of explanation |
| 57% | ASIN | 4 | Words of explanation |
| 57% | THATSHOW | 8 | Words of explanation |
| 54% | ASIN | 4 | Words of clarification when spelling |
| 54% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | BEITSO | 6 | Words of agreement in Shakespeare |
| 52% | BON | 3 | Word of praise in Paris |
| 52% | AMEN | 4 | Word of agreement, in church |
| 52% | ADIEU | 5 | Word of parting in Paris |
| 52% | DANKE | 5 | Word of gratitude in Graz |
| 52% | OUI | 3 | Word of permission in Paris |
| 52% | ALOHA | 5 | Word of affection in Waikiki |
| 52% | OUI | 3 | Word of agreement in Paris |
| 52% | CIRCA | 5 | Word of inexactness, in dates |
| 52% | AMO | 3 | Word of love, in Latin |
| 52% | DANKE | 5 | Word of gratitude in Göttingen |
| 51% | SPRINGBREAK | 11 | Popular vacation time ... and an explanation of what's straddling the two words in each theme answer? |
| 51% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 51% | AMEN | 4 | Word of agreement shouted in church |
| 51% | OLE | 3 | Word of support in a stadium |
| 51% | STAT | 4 | Word of urgency in the infirmary |
| 50% | AMEN | 4 | Word of agreement often shouted in church |
| 50% | ALOHA | 5 | Word of greeting or farewell, in Honolulu |
| 50% | ALOHA | 5 | Word of great significance in Hawaiian culture |
| 50% | ALLELUIA | 8 | Word of praise in an Easter service |
| 48% | IDO | 3 | Words of affirmation in a marriage ceremony: 2 wds. |
| 48% | MAAM | 4 | Word of respect with an apostrophe in the middle |
| 48% | AURIC | 5 | Word in compounds of gold |