| 100% | AFN | 3 | "___ Europe": provider of info, news and entertainment to US service personnel stationed in Europe since 1943 |
| 31% | ALE | 3 | "___ Street News", founded in 1992 by Tony Forder and Jack Babin to provide info about the world of beer |
| 30% | WAPITI | 6 | Name of the oldest US Forest Service ranger station used continuously since 1903 |
| 30% | BURBANK | 7 | City in Los Angeles County, California, US; home of numerous media and entertainment companies |
| 28% | LSAT | 4 | US joint service program initiated in 2004 aimed at reducing the weight of weaponry and ammunition (abbr.) |
| 28% | MUSK | 4 | Oxen the US Fish and Wildlife Service brought to Alaska's Nunivak Island in 1935 |
| 28% | SPLITSCREEN | 11 | Feature of some news reports ... and a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 28% | ARTDECO | 7 | Style of design and interior decoration in Europe and the US in the 1920s and 1930s |
| 28% | MEDIA | 5 | News and entertainment providers, collectively |
| 28% | BRO | 3 | Popular term of address among men in the US and New Zealand |
| 26% | SUDAN | 5 | Country in which the effects of war and displacement led U.N. experts to warn of widespread famine (October, 2024) |
| 26% | AIRSHOWS | 8 | Providers of in-flight entertainment? |
| 26% | OPS | 3 | US component of USAID from '62 to '74 that trained Uruguayan police in explosives, assassination, and riot control (abbr.) |
| 26% | CLOUD | 5 | Type of storage that allows us to access our files and data from anywhere in the world |
| 26% | SEXANDTHECITY | 13 | Whence the line “Women come to New York in search of the two Ls: labels and love” |
| 26% | LINCOLN | 7 | Abraham ___, 16th President of the U.S.A. and the first to sport a beard in office |
| 26% | HARRISON | 8 | Benjamin ___, 23rd President of the U.S.A. and the fifth to sport a beard in office |
| 26% | PNC | 3 | American financial services provider, that is the fifth-largest bank in the U.S., by number of branches |
| 26% | JAMES | 5 | ___ A. Garfield, 20th President of the U.S.A. and the fourth to sport a beard in office |
| 26% | GRANT | 5 | Ulysses S. ___, 18th President of the U.S.A. and the second to sport a beard in office |
| 25% | AEC | 3 | US agcy. that established its Technical Analysis Branch in 1961 to study long-term biological and ecological effects of nuclear war |
| 25% | ANDREWJACKSON | 13 | The 7th US president and hero of the battle of New Orleans was 1st to be targeted for assassination |
| 25% | MIRREN | 6 | Only person to have won the Triple Crown of Acting in both the U.S. and the U.K. |
| 25% | LONDONZOO | 9 | Home of the first hippopotamus in Europe since the Roman Empire |
| 25% | TRUMAN | 6 | Harry S. ___, 33rd President of the U.S.A. and the last (so far) to sport a beard in office |
| 24% | TANGLEDWEB | 10 | According to Sir Walter Scott, what "we weave, / When first we practise to deceive" ... and what appears in each set of circles |
| 24% | IWOJIMA | 7 | Island in the Pacific also known as Iwo To; scene of prolonged fighting between Japan and the US in World War II |
| 24% | BIERCE | 6 | Ambrose __, US wit and author of The New Decalogue |
| 24% | ALBANIA | 7 | Country in Europe next to N. Macedonia and Greece |
| 24% | TVREPORTER | 10 | News provider in front of a camera |