| 100% | MUN | 3 | 560 mi. Thai river whose name US Air Force personnel morphed into the name of Andy Williams' famous song |
| 27% | BARTLETTPEAR | 12 | US name of the Williams Bon Chretien plant cultivar |
| 27% | AIM | 3 | "___ high" (start of the US Air Force motto) |
| 26% | STYX | 4 | River whose name comes entirely from the last eight letters of the alphabet |
| 26% | WACO | 4 | U.S. radio station whose call letters spell the name of its city |
| 26% | ORINOCO | 7 | "___ Flow" (Enya song featuring the name of a South American river) |
| 26% | ISIS | 4 | Bob Dylan song whose title is the name of a goddess |
| 26% | COLORADOSPRINGS | 15 | Home of the U.S. Air Force Academy |
| 25% | OSAGE | 5 | — River, tributary of the Missouri, US that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir |
| 25% | OSAGE | 5 | — River, tributary of the Missouri, US, that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir |
| 25% | OSAGE | 5 | — River, US tributary of the Missouri that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir |
| 25% | OSAGE | 5 | — River, tributary of the Missouri River, US, which flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir |
| 25% | AIM | 3 | ___ High ... Fly-Fight-Win (motto of the U.S. Air Force) |
| 25% | CONGO | 5 | ___ River, Central African river whose basin feeds a rainforest of the same name |
| 24% | GREENLAND | 9 | Home of Thule Air Base, the U.S. Air Force's northernmost |
| 24% | OSAGE | 5 | — River, tributary of the Missouri River in the US that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir |
| 24% | OISE | 4 | 212 mi. river that flows into the Seine in the suburbs of Paris |
| 24% | OTTER | 5 | Playful river animal whose fur inspired the invention of an air-trapping wetsuit |
| 24% | DEMIMOORE | 9 | Actress whose full name can be made from the letters of DO RE MI |
| 24% | SAL | 3 | 482 mi. long river that flows into the Don and rises near the city of Elista in Kalmykia, Russia |
| 24% | SIXTIMEWINNER | 13 | Unique claim of the U.S. Open player whose name is hidden in 34-Across |
| 24% | OHIO | 4 | Home of the U.S.'s largest cities whose names start with X and Z |
| 24% | TWO | 3 | "___ of Us," VH1 drama which was named after The Beatles song released in 1969 |
| 24% | ALDA | 4 | Famous Alan whose last name shares three of the four letters of ALAN |
| 23% | ISR | 3 | U.S. ally whose capital has the letters U-S-A in the middle of its name: Abbr. |
| 23% | WONDERFUL | 9 | "It's the Most ___ Time of the Year," a hugely popular Christmas song by Andy Williams |
| 23% | PHARRELL | 8 | Williams whose song "Happy" was the best-selling song in the US in 2014 |
| 23% | DELTA | 5 | Large US airline named for the southern region of the Mississippi River |
| 23% | FUNKYTOWN | 9 | The name of a 1980 disco song by Lipps Inc. |
| 23% | GABLE | 5 | Clark ___, "The Misfits" actor who served in the military as part of the U.S. Air force |