| 100% | DUMBARTON | 9 | __ Oaks, conference that led to founding of the UN |
| 49% | REDSCARE | 8 | Panic that led to the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten |
| 47% | FALSEHOOD | 9 | "___ of the tongue leads to that of the heart": Jefferson |
| 47% | THEELEPHANTMAN | 14 | 1980 film that led to the creation of the Academy Award for Best Makeup |
| 45% | AERIALSHOT | 10 | Type of photo that led to the "Streisand effect" |
| 44% | ARABSPRING | 10 | Series of uprisings that led to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak |
| 43% | SETUP | 5 | Part of a joke that leads to the punch line |
| 43% | HEAT | 4 | ___ wave, climate condition leading to high temperatures that is a proposed theory for the extinction of dinosaurs |
| 43% | COLD | 4 | ___ wave, climate condition leading to freezing temperatures that is a proposed theory for the extinction of dinosaurs |
| 43% | YELLOW | 6 | Color of the road that led to the Wizard of Oz |
| 42% | BRETTON | 7 | __ Woods, conference led to the IMF being founded |
| 42% | SACRA | 5 | Via ___, ancient Rome's main street that led from the top of the Capitoline Hill to the Colosseum |
| 42% | SEA | 3 | ___ level change, condition leading to oceanic water level changes that is a proposed theory for the extinction of dinosaurs |
| 41% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 41% | APOLLO | 6 | Project that led to the first moonwalk |
| 41% | XYZAFFAIR | 9 | Scandal that led to the Quasi-War |
| 41% | SUEZ | 4 | Canal that leads to the Red Sea |
| 41% | ELBE | 4 | German river that leads to the North Sea |
| 40% | CHRISTIE | 8 | James ___, founder of the auction house that sold 38-Across |
| 39% | ACC | 3 | Conference that includes the University of Miami: Abbr. |
| 39% | ABSCAM | 6 | Scandal that led to seven bribery convictions of US members of Congress |
| 38% | ITCY | 4 | Body of the UN created in 1993 to prosecute war crimes (abbr.) |
| 38% | KORAN | 5 | Book that refers to "People of the Book" |
| 38% | JAW | 3 | Part of the face that moves to chew |
| 38% | PUPIL | 5 | Part of the eye that reacts to light |
| 38% | COUP | 4 | Revolt leading to the overthrow of existing authority |
| 38% | QUINSY | 6 | Infection of the throat/tonsils leading to abscess |
| 38% | VIADUCT | 7 | Word that led to the "Why a duck?" routine by the Marx brothers |
| 38% | ART | 3 | Cake ___, trend featuring hyperrealistic cakes that led to the "Is it Cake?" meme |