| 100% | DUDDON | 6 | "Sonnets from the River ___: After-Thought," poem by William Wordsworth dedicated to the river in England |
| 43% | OTTER | 5 | "To the River ___," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the river near his childhood home in England |
| 38% | SHE | 3 | "___ Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," poem by William Wordsworth |
| 36% | OUSE | 4 | River in England that flows to the Wash near King's Lynn |
| 34% | TYNE | 4 | River in N England that flows to the North Sea at South Shields |
| 34% | PRELUDE | 7 | "The ___," autobiographical poem by and about the April-born poet William Wordsworth |
| 34% | SIRDUKE | 7 | Hit from "Songs in the Key of Life" dedicated to Ellington |
| 34% | AFTON | 5 | "Sweet ___," lyrical poem by Robert Burns about the river in Scotland |
| 33% | WILLIAM | 7 | "To ___ Wordsworth," poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in response to Wordsworth's autobiographical poem "The Prelude" |
| 33% | KONTIKI | 7 | Balsa wood raft used by Thor Heyerdahl to sail from Peru to the Tuamotus in 1947 |
| 33% | CHARLES | 7 | "To the River ___," poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about offering gratitude to the Massachusetts river |
| 33% | MAYFLOWER | 9 | Ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to North America in 1620 |
| 33% | ANGARA | 6 | River in Siberia flowing from Lake Baikal to the Yenisei River upon which Irkutsk stands |
| 33% | HUMBER | 6 | Large tidal estuary in northern England formed by the Rivers Ouse and Trent |
| 33% | MANCHESTER | 10 | City in NW England linked to the Mersey estuary by a ship canal |
| 32% | OFFASDYKE | 9 | Earthwork between England and Wales running from the Dee estuary to the River Wye |
| 32% | SIMMER | 6 | Song by Hayley Williams from the album "Petals for Armor" which released in 2020 |
| 32% | GIRLPOWER | 9 | Slogan thought to have originated in a 1991 zine by the punk band Bikini Kill |
| 32% | DESIRE | 6 | "Sudden ___," song by Hayley Williams from the album "Petals for Armor" which released in 2020 |
| 32% | BORDERERS | 9 | "The ___," sole play written by William Wordsworth that was published in 1842 |
| 32% | LILACS | 6 | "When ___ Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," poem by Walt Whitman which is an elegy to Abraham Lincoln |
| 31% | PLUM | 4 | Fruit in the William Carlos Williams poem "This Is Just to Say" |
| 31% | MADDINGCROWD | 12 | "Far from the ____," 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy which is about the farming community in Victorian England: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ODE | 3 | "Immortality ___," 1807 poem by William Wordsworth about childhood |
| 31% | ILOG | 4 | Municipality surrounded by the Hilabangan River and named after the Tagalog word for river in the Philippines |
| 31% | INCOMETAX | 9 | Personal charge introduced in Britain by William Pitt the Younger in 1798 to help finance war against France |
| 31% | DOT | 3 | In music, the symbol placed after a note to increase its time value by a half |
| 31% | TULSA | 5 | "___ Time," hit song by country artist Don Williams which is dedicated to the city historically known as the "Oil Capital of the World" |
| 30% | ICE | 3 | "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ___..." line from a famous poem by Robert Frost |
| 30% | ANDROID | 7 | Marvin the Paranoid ___, robot from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," voiced by Alan Rickman in the film |