| 100% | SAWYER | 6 | "ABC World News with Diane ___" |
| 61% | NEWS | 4 | "ABC World ___ With Diane Sawyer" |
| 53% | DIANESAWYER | 11 | "ABC World News" anchor |
| 52% | DIANE | 5 | "ABC World News" anchor Sawyer |
| 51% | YANKEES | 7 | New York baseball team with 27 World Series championships |
| 51% | MUIR | 4 | "ABC World News Tonight" anchor David |
| 50% | MUIR | 4 | David of "ABC World News Tonight" |
| 49% | SAWYER | 6 | Successor to Gibson on "ABC World News" |
| 49% | DIANESAWYER | 11 | Anchor of "ABC World News": 2 wds. |
| 49% | MUIR | 4 | Anchor David of "ABC World News Tonight" |
| 49% | MUIR | 4 | David, anchor of "ABC World News Tonight" |
| 49% | ELO | 3 | Grp. with the platinum record "A New World Record" |
| 49% | TEMPEST | 7 | Source of the phrase "brave new world," with "The" |
| 49% | ALADDIN | 7 | Disney film with the song "A Whole New World" |
| 49% | REARMED | 7 | Upgraded with some new World of Warcraft weapons, maybe |
| 48% | CNN | 3 | Channel with the slogan, "The world's news leader": Abbr. |
| 48% | CNN | 3 | Cable channel with the slogan "The World's News Leader" |
| 48% | ELO | 3 | Grp. with the 1976 platinum album "A New World Record" |
| 47% | CARDINAL | 8 | New World songbird with a stout bill such as the vermilion — |
| 47% | NEWS | 4 | "ABC World ___ Tonight With David Muir" |
| 46% | PETERJENNINGS | 13 | "ABC World News Tonight" anchor from 1983 to 2005 (2 wds.) |
| 46% | PETERJENNINGS | 13 | Former "ABC World News Tonight" anchor, 1983-2005: 2 wds. |
| 46% | STARTREK | 8 | Sci-fi franchise with a "Strange New Worlds" spin-off: 2 wds. |
| 45% | TENDAYSIN | 9 | With 37-Across, new ABC series about a TV producer whose daughter goes missing: 3 wds. |
| 44% | DIANESAWYER | 11 | TV journalist who anchored "ABC World News" and "20/20": 2 wds. |
| 44% | ORINOCO | 7 | River with the second-largest discharge volume in the New World, after the Amazon |
| 43% | ANZAC | 5 | In World War I, a soldier serving with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps |
| 43% | UPDATE | 6 | News with new information |
| 43% | UPI | 3 | World news source (Abbr.) |
| 43% | ABC | 3 | "___ World News Tonight" |