| OYSTER | The world, per "Merry Wives" ... |
| OSCAR | "One of the biggest slobs in the world," per the play |
| ASTAGE | All the world, per the Bard |
| INSECT | One of "the little things that run the world," per E.O. Wilson |
| WINE | "One of the most civilized things in the world," per Hemingway |
| ART | "The only serious thing in the world," per Oscar Wilde |
| CALIFORNIAGIRLS | They're the cutest in the world, per a hit song |
| BROWNSKINGIRL | "The best thing in the world," per a 2019 Beyonce song |
| MUTUALAID | "The radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world," per Dean Spade |
| KAREN | Singer Carpenter who had "the best female voice in the world," per Paul McCartney |
| RIO | Site of the largest carnival in the world, per Guinness |
| PULCHERRIMA | The "most beautiful girl" in the world per Prince, 1994 |
| ORBISON | "Greatest singer in the world," per Presley |
| GIRLS | Ones running the world, per Beyonce |
| STAGE | "All the world," per a famous line from Shakespeare |
| METOO | "Two magic words that galvanized the world," per Tarana Burke in 2018 |
| BICYCLE | What did more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world, per Susan B. Anthony |
| IMAGINE | Song that was John Lennon's "greatest musical gift to the world" per Rolling Stone |
| CHEETODUST | The "glitter of the snack world," per Ellen DeGeneres |
| SNOO | Seventeen-hundred-dollar bassinet with a "cult-like fandom in the parenting world," per Wirecutter |
