| 100% | RIMBAUD | 7 | "A Season in Hell" poet, whose name is pronounced like "Rambo" |
| 61% | EYE | 3 | Body part whose name is pronounced like a vowel |
| 51% | ALVVAYS | 7 | "Archie, Marry Me" band, whose name is pronounced like "always" |
| 51% | HER | 3 | R&B singer whose stage name is pronounced like a pronoun |
| 50% | NOME | 4 | City whose name is pronounced like the natives' word for "Where is ...?" |
| 50% | ACAI | 4 | Fruit whose name is pronounced in three syllables |
| 49% | TET | 3 | Holiday whose name is pronounced with a high rising tone |
| 49% | LIMA | 4 | Ohio city whose name is pronounced with a long "I" |
| 48% | ENO | 3 | Musician whose name is a number in reverse |
| 47% | VASE | 4 | Container whose name is pronounced with either a long "a" or an "ah" |
| 47% | TOM | 3 | Boy whose name is repeated in a nursery rhyme |
| 47% | BTEN | 4 | Bygone bomber whose name is a call in bingo |
| 47% | AMOR | 4 | Deity whose name is a city in Italia backwards |
| 47% | SUEDE | 5 | Material whose name is a Scandinavian country in French |
| 47% | DONOR | 5 | Supporter whose name is listed in a fundraising report |
| 47% | ELAL | 4 | Company whose name is derived from a passage in Hosea |
| 47% | OSRIC | 5 | Actor Chau whose name is also a character in "Hamlet" |
| 47% | ABSALOM | 7 | Biblical figure whose name is repeated in a Faulkner title |
| 46% | STAR | 4 | Actor whose name is in big letters on a movie poster |
| 46% | ONCE | 4 | Musical whose name is the number 11 in a foreign language |
| 46% | KOI | 3 | Ornamental fish whose name is a homophone for “love” in Japanese |
| 46% | MARCO | 5 | With 74 Across, explorer whose name is shouted in a pool |
| 46% | TALKINGHEADS | 12 | Band whose name was taken from a term in TV Guide |
| 46% | TEDY | 4 | Former New England Patriot Bruschi whose name is a bear to pronounce? |
| 46% | EMU | 3 | Bird whose name is also the initials of a school in Ypsilanti |
| 46% | SPAM | 4 | Food product whose name is used nowadays mostly in a nonfood way |
| 46% | XEROX | 5 | Company whose name is now in dictionaries as a verb meaning "photocopy" |
| 45% | NIECE | 5 | Relative whose name sounds like a city in France |
| 45% | UNO | 3 | Card game whose name is said when only one card remains in a hand |
| 44% | SCONE | 5 | Food item whose name is pronounced with either a long or a short o, depending on whom you ask |