| 100% | GLADES | 6 | A&E police drama set in South Florida, with "The" |
| 55% | HAWAIIFIVEO | 11 | Police drama set in the Aloha State that featured Carol Burnett in a recurring role as Steve McGarrett's aunt (2 wds.) |
| 51% | MIAMIVICE | 9 | Stylish '80s police drama set in Florida: 2 wds. |
| 51% | SQUIDGAME | 9 | South Korean survival drama series on Netflix with a tentacled sea predator in the title: 2 wds. |
| 50% | CSIMIAMI | 8 | Long-running police drama set in Florida starring David Caruso (2 wds.) |
| 49% | MIAMIVICE | 9 | 1980s police drama set in Florida starring 15-Across and 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 45% | GREYSANATOMY | 12 | Medical drama set in Seattle with a 2011 same-sex wedding between Callie and Arizona: 2 wds. |
| 45% | CSI | 3 | Police drama set in Las Vegas |
| 44% | DAWSON | 6 | Guy with a creek in the 90s US teen drama |
| 44% | CSI | 3 | CBS police drama set in Vegas |
| 43% | FORK | 4 | With 15-Across, utensil usually at the far left in a place setting |
| 43% | CATCHASER | 9 | 1982 Elmore Leonard novel set in south Florida |
| 43% | RIO | 3 | 1939 Basil Rathbone drama set in South America |
| 42% | PITT | 4 | "The ___" (medical drama set in a Pennsylvania ER starring Noah Wyle) |
| 41% | STRANGERTHINGS | 14 | Netflix series set in the 1980s in which single mom Joyce Byers contends with a supernatural monster: 2 wds. |
| 41% | MIAMIVICE | 9 | 2006 cop drama set in Florida |
| 41% | MADMEN | 6 | AMC drama set in the '60s |
| 41% | FARGO | 5 | Crime drama set in the Midwest |
| 41% | BETTERCALLSAUL | 14 | Crime drama set in Arizona and Nebraska that featured Carol Burnett in a recurring role as the mother of a con man (3 wds.) |
| 41% | MADMEN | 6 | 2000s TV drama set in the 1960s |
| 41% | GOTHAM | 6 | TV drama set in the Batman universe |
| 41% | CSINY | 5 | Forensic drama set in the Big Apple |
| 41% | OZARK | 5 | Netflix crime drama set in the Midwest |
| 40% | CRYFREEDOM | 10 | 1987 drama set in apartheid-era South Africa |
| 40% | NCIS | 4 | TV drama set in the D.C. area |
| 40% | OZARK | 5 | Netflix crime drama set in the Missouri mountains |
| 40% | OZARK | 5 | Netflix drama set in a Missouri mountain resort |
| 40% | ZOOTSUIT | 8 | Set of outer clothes popular in the 1940s consisting of a long coat with wide padded shoulders and pegged trousers |
| 40% | CHICAGOFIRE | 11 | TV drama set in the Prairie State (2 wds.) |
| 40% | NCISNEWORLEANS | 14 | TV drama set in the Pelican State (3 wds.) |