| 100% | BOULDER | 7 | & 6D City in Nevada, US, originally built for those working on the construction of the Hoover Dam |
| 47% | MEAD | 4 | Lake ___, largest artificial lake in the U.S. that looks natural but was formed by the construction of the Hoover Dam |
| 36% | PETERSBURG | 10 | City in Virginia on the Appomattox River that saw the final campaign of the American Civil War |
| 35% | ERIE | 4 | City on a lake of the same name in the US |
| 35% | POTSDAM | 7 | City in Germany on the Havel River that hosted a 1945 meeting of the principal Allies in World War II |
| 35% | GARY | 4 | City in Indiana, US, founded in 1906 on the southern shore of Lake Michigan |
| 35% | SALE | 4 | FOR ___ (sign in front of a house that's on the market) |
| 33% | PHILADELPHIA | 12 | City in Pennsylvania, US, that saw the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 |
| 33% | MEAD | 4 | Lake —, reservoir in Arizona and Nevada, US, formed by the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River |
| 32% | OSHKOSH | 7 | US city and summer resort in E Wisconsin situated on the western shore of Lake Winnebago |
| 32% | STREETART | 9 | Work on the side of a building, perhaps |
| 32% | SAVANNAH | 8 | Southern city that's the setting for "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" |
| 32% | NEEL | 4 | Louis —, joint recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetism |
| 31% | SUWANNEE | 8 | US river rising in the Okefenokee Swamp on the Georgia-Florida border that flows to the Gulf of Mexico |
| 31% | TAHOE | 5 | Lake —, body of water in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada, US |
| 31% | OSBORN | 6 | Ohio town relocated in 1921 due to the construction of the Huffman Dam |
| 31% | EULER | 5 | Leonhard —, 18th-century mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation |
| 31% | LAS | 3 | & 25A City in Nevada, US famous for its casinos |
| 31% | TREO | 4 | Name of the dog that received the Dickin Medal in 2010 for work in uncovering IEDs in Afghanistan |
| 31% | EMMY | 4 | Statuette of a winged woman holding an atom awarded annually in the US for outstanding work in television |
| 31% | EMMY | 4 | Statuette of a winged woman holding an atom, awarded annually in the US for outstanding work in television |
| 31% | TULSA | 5 | City in the US state of Oklahoma |
| 31% | HERON | 5 | — Tower, popular name for the tallest building in the City of London financial district |
| 31% | YRS | 3 | Periods that end on the 31st of December, for short |
| 30% | MADEINAMERICA | 13 | "O.J.:___," documentary series, based on the life of O. J. Simpson, that won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2016: 3 wds. |
| 30% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 30% | SALTLAKE | 8 | City in the US that hosted 2002 Winter Olympics |
| 30% | GREBE | 5 | Bird known for building floating nests on the surface of the water |