| 100% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose name can be spelled with music notes |
| 61% | EWOK | 4 | Sci-fi creature whose name can be spelled with letters in Wookiee |
| 50% | REI | 3 | Outdoor-gear retailer whose name can be spelled from letters in retailer |
| 48% | BEN | 3 | With 22-Across, former senator whose name can be spelled using only the letters in NEBRASKA (his home state) |
| 47% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose name is sometimes rendered with a backward B |
| 47% | INXS | 4 | Australian band whose name is spelled in all caps |
| 46% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish band whose name is spelled the same backward and forward |
| 46% | ACDC | 4 | Hard-rock band whose name is stylized with a lightning bolt |
| 45% | KESHA | 5 | Pop star whose name was formerly spelled with a $ |
| 44% | KESHA | 5 | "TiK ToK" singer whose name was formerly spelled with a $ |
| 44% | SARI | 4 | Garment whose name is often spelled with "ee" at the end |
| 41% | TEN | 3 | Largest integer whose name is spelled with three letters |
| 41% | OMAN | 4 | Country whose name can be an exclamation |
| 41% | ENO | 3 | Brian ___ of ambient music whose name can be found in "tenor" |
| 41% | OMNI | 4 | International chain whose name can be a prefix |
| 41% | BSIX | 4 | Vitamin whose name could be a bingo call |
| 41% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose name is an acronym |
| 41% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose name is a palindrome |
| 40% | ATTY | 4 | One whose name can be followed by "Esq.": Abbr. |
| 40% | BASRA | 5 | City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS |
| 40% | ELI | 3 | Biblical priest whose name can be found in "belief" |
| 40% | BANCODEMEXICO | 13 | Financial institution whose name can be found on pesos |
| 40% | ABA | 3 | Band whose name is a rhyme scheme |
| 40% | AXE | 3 | Weapon that can be spelled with two or three letters |
| 40% | NADAL | 5 | Decorated athlete whose name could be parsed as "zero" + "loss" |
| 39% | NINETEEN | 8 | Number that can be spelled with only one-point Scrabble tiles |
| 39% | SEAL | 4 | Sea-lion relative whose name can be found in “sea lion” |
| 39% | OAR | 3 | Band whose name has nothing to do with rowing |
| 39% | CHVRCHES | 8 | Scottish band whose name is pronounced "churches" |