| 100% | CXI | 3 | Year that in Arabic numerals has all repeated digits |
| 35% | DIDNT | 5 | "___ We Almost Have It All," number-one hit by Whitney Houston that received a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year in 1988 |
| 32% | PICKLEBALL | 10 | Sport that has generated noise complaints across the country in recent years |
| 32% | IOO | 3 | C, in Arabic numerals |
| 31% | PET | 3 | Something that all but three U.S. presidents have had while in office |
| 31% | SNL | 3 | Show that has been filmed in N.Y.C. for more than forty years |
| 31% | TOSS | 4 | *Spring cleaning* "___ out all the unused things that have piled up in your garage!" |
| 30% | CHINA | 5 | Country that has emitted over 230,000 megatons of carbon dioxide in the last 270 years |
| 30% | AGE | 3 | Years that one has lived |
| 30% | ROW | 3 | It can't have repeated digits, in a sudoku puzzle |
| 29% | AVATAR | 6 | 2009 James Cameron movie that takes place in a dystopian future where Earth has exhausted all resources |
| 29% | USA | 3 | Country that has emitted over 400,000 megatons of carbon dioxide in the last 270 years: Abbr. |
| 29% | LEAP | 4 | Year that has an additional day |
| 29% | ROW | 3 | Have all your ducks in a ___ |
| 29% | BYE | 3 | When repeated thrice, NSYNC's iconic breakup anthem from "No Strings Attached" that celebrates 25 years in 2025 |
| 29% | PALMSPRINGS | 11 | California city that, in 2018, became the first U.S. city to have an all-L.G.B.T. city council |
| 28% | MCIV | 4 | Year that Acre fell in the First Crusade |
| 28% | AYES | 4 | All those in favor |
| 28% | PROS | 4 | All those in favor |
| 28% | EEL | 3 | Long-lived European fish, now critically endangered, that has declined in numbers by about 90% or more in fifty years |
| 28% | JRS | 3 | Those in their third year of high school: Abbr. |
| 28% | ZERO | 4 | Digit repeated in a googol |
| 28% | TOES | 4 | Digits that fit in shoes |
| 28% | AGO | 3 | In time that has passed |
| 28% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 28% | EGYPT | 5 | Country that has won only a single Olympic gold medal - in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling - in the past 70 years |
| 27% | OVETT | 5 | British Middle-distance runner Steve ___, who in 1987 had bronze statue erected in Brighton, UK that was stolen 20 years later |
| 27% | 7BC | 3 | Year that Dionysius of Halicarnassus is believed to have died |
| 27% | LIKELIKES | 9 | Has feelings for, in that way |
| 27% | THUMB | 5 | Digit that's opposable in humans |