| 100% | SKUNK | 5 | Animal associated with (and whose name is two letters away from) stink |
| 46% | APPLEMARTIN | 11 | Celebrity scion whose name is one letter away from a cocktail's |
| 46% | ESSO | 4 | Company whose name is derived from two letters |
| 46% | YALU | 4 | Asian river whose name is one letter away from an Ivy League college |
| 45% | OKGO | 4 | Rock band whose name is two letters off from their 2005 album "Oh No" |
| 45% | IMPALA | 6 | African creature whose name is one letter away from what its horns might do |
| 45% | PEA | 3 | "A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?" |
| 41% | PEZ | 3 | Tablet-shaped candy whose name was derived from the first, middle, and last letters in the German word for peppermint |
| 40% | DEGAS | 5 | Painter Edgar whose last name is one letter away from being an anagram of his first name |
| 39% | TSO | 3 | General whose name is associated with chicken |
| 39% | AVOGADRO | 8 | Scientist whose name is associated with a number |
| 38% | TEN | 3 | Largest integer whose name is spelled with three letters |
| 38% | NEDLUDD | 7 | Legendary textile worker whose name is now associated with technophobes |
| 38% | PION | 4 | Subatomic particle whose name is derived from a Greek letter |
| 38% | FIJI | 4 | Country whose name is one letter different from a mountain |
| 38% | DAHL | 4 | Author whose name is one letter off from 31-Down |
| 38% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name becomes that of a currency when its second letter is doubled and its last two letters are moved to the front |
| 37% | MACH | 4 | Physicist Ernst whose name is associated with the speed of sound |
| 37% | ILLINI | 6 | College team whose name is its home state minus two letters |
| 37% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name is one letter off from its neighbor, Iraq |
| 37% | DINAH | 5 | Singer Shore whose name is associated with a major LPGA golf tournament |
| 37% | ENESCO | 6 | Composer whose name is one letter off from an international peace grp. |
| 37% | LEMUR | 5 | Animal whose name is derived from the Latin for "ghosts" |
| 37% | ESPY | 4 | Award whose name is one letter different from the channel that originated it |
| 37% | FERRETS | 7 | Animals whose name is derived from the Latin for "little thief" |
| 37% | EOS | 3 | Greek goddess whose name is one letter off from 69-Down |
| 37% | EROS | 4 | Greek god whose name is one letter off from 118-Down |
| 36% | AIKIDO | 6 | Martial art whose name is formed from the kanji for “harmony,” “spirit,” and “way” |
| 36% | URDU | 4 | Language whose name starts and ends with the same letter |
| 36% | CAMEL | 5 | Animal whose two species are dromedary and Bactrian |