| 100% | FDNY | 4 | Big Apple's bravest, in brief |
| 88% | FDNY | 4 | The Big Apple's "bravest," in brief |
| 70% | NYTIMES | 7 | Big Apple daily, in brief |
| 63% | FDNY | 4 | Big Apple's Bravest, briefly |
| 63% | FDNY | 4 | The Bravest in the Big Apple, for short |
| 63% | FDNY | 4 | Big Apple's Bravest, for short |
| 58% | FDNY | 4 | Letters on Big Apple's Bravest hats |
| 56% | FDNY | 4 | Big Apple's "bravest," briefly |
| 55% | FDNY | 4 | Big Apple's ''bravest,'' for short |
| 53% | MOTTST | 6 | Big Apple thoroughfare named in Rodgers and Hart's "Manhattan" |
| 52% | COSCOB | 6 | Big Apple suburb in Connecticut |
| 50% | METS | 4 | Big Apple team in the National League |
| 50% | NYNY | 4 | The Big Apple, in addresses |
| 50% | NUEVAYORK | 9 | The Big Apple, in Spanish |
| 50% | CITY | 4 | (2/3) Concrete jungle like the Big Apple that's always in a hustle |
| 49% | NUEVA | 5 | ___ York (the Big Apple, in Baja) |
| 48% | NYU | 3 | College in the Big Apple's Greenwich Village: Abbr. |
| 48% | NTEST | 5 | Big mushroom producer, in brief |
| 48% | OPEC | 4 | Big oil cartel, in brief |
| 48% | MOTTS | 5 | Big name in apple products |
| 48% | MOTTS | 5 | Big name in apple juice |
| 48% | STEVE | 5 | Big name in Apple history |
| 48% | IRA | 3 | ___ Flatow, "Newton's Apple" host who cameoed in "The Big Bang Theory" |
| 48% | NYU | 3 | Big Apple sch. with campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai |
| 47% | HANES | 5 | Big name in boxers and briefs |
| 47% | NEWYORKSBRAVEST | 15 | Big Apple's firefighters |
| 47% | HANES | 5 | Big name in briefs |
| 47% | NYNEX | 5 | Big Apple telephone company that merged with Bell Atlantic in 1997 |
| 46% | SPACEFLIGHT | 11 | A Big Apple newspaper called it ''impossible'' in 1920 |
| 46% | GMC | 3 | Big name in S.U.V.'s |