| 100% | FREESTATE | 9 | Bavaria, per part of its official name |
| 53% | OSCAR | 5 | Its official name is Academy Award of Merit |
| 51% | ARAB | 4 | Part of Syria's official name |
| 49% | LEONES | 6 | African currency whose singular form is part of its country's name |
| 49% | CHICAGO | 7 | ___ Fizz, cocktail that shares part of its name with "The Windy City" |
| 48% | HAWAII | 6 | Blue ___, tropical cocktail that shares part of its name with "The Aloha State" |
| 48% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye that shares its name with a flower |
| 47% | VOLKSWAGENDASHER | 16 | 1970s auto that shares part of its name with one of Santa's reindeer |
| 47% | CAPE | 4 | ___ Codder, cocktail that shares part of its name with a popular Massachusetts tourist attraction |
| 47% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye that shares its name with a rainbow goddess |
| 47% | POODLEMOTH | 10 | Rare insect that borrows a part of its name from a dog breed: 2 wds. |
| 47% | CONE | 4 | Cold dessert that is made with syrup and shares part of its name with 14a |
| 47% | SINGAPORE | 9 | ___ Sling, cocktail that shares part of its name with a city-state in Southeast Asia |
| 46% | ISLAND | 6 | Long ___ Iced Tea, cocktail that shares part of its name with a New York metropolitan region |
| 46% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye that shares its name with the Greek goddess of rainbow |
| 44% | GARAGE | 6 | Part of a house that lends its name to a music genre stereotypically rehearsed in it |
| 44% | RACCOONDOG | 10 | Animal which borrows a part of its name from a native North American mammal which it resembles: 2 wds. |
| 44% | THUNDER | 7 | ___ Bay, Canadian city located on Lake Superior that shares part of its name with the sound that accompanies lightning |
| 43% | POLYNESIA | 9 | Part of it is French |
| 43% | AIR | 3 | Part of it is nitrogen |
| 42% | HOLYROMANEMPIRE | 15 | Franconia and Bavaria were once part of it |
| 42% | ENDPAPER | 8 | Part of it forms the flyleaf |
| 42% | IND | 3 | St. whose name is part of its capital's name |
| 41% | ADAIR | 5 | Part of Will Rogers's real name |
| 41% | DELEON | 6 | Part of a Spanish explorer's name |
| 41% | BATOR | 5 | Part of an Asian capital's name |
| 41% | PENH | 4 | Part of an Asian capital's name |
| 41% | OLDE | 4 | Part of many an antique shop name |
| 41% | VON | 3 | Part of a German noble's name |
| 41% | EDY | 3 | Part of a possessive supermarket brand name |