| 100% | TESORO | 6 | Cache in the Sierra Madre |
| 77% | SONORA | 6 | State in the Sierra Madre |
| 75% | ALTO | 4 | High in the Sierra Madre? |
| 75% | PLATA | 5 | Silver, in the Sierra Madres |
| 71% | QUEPASA | 7 | What’s up in the Sierra Madre? |
| 58% | ORO | 3 | Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 56% | ORO | 3 | Treasure of the Sierra Madre? |
| 54% | ALTA | 4 | ___ Peak, in the Sierra Nevada |
| 54% | MUIR | 4 | "Studies in the Sierra" author |
| 54% | TAHOE | 5 | Lake in the Sierra Nevadas |
| 53% | MUIR | 4 | "Studies in the Sierra" writer John |
| 53% | TAHOE | 5 | Lake in the Sierra Nevada range |
| 53% | TAHOE | 5 | Freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada |
| 53% | ALTO | 4 | It's high in the Sierras |
| 52% | TAHOE | 5 | Lake ___ (freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada) |
| 51% | WHITNEY | 7 | Mount —, highest peak in the Sierra Nevada, US |
| 50% | MUIR | 4 | John who wrote "My First Summer in the Sierra" |
| 49% | TAHOE | 5 | Chevy SUV named after a lake in the Sierra Nevada |
| 49% | VELETA | 6 | Pico del —, second highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range, Spain |
| 48% | BEBE | 4 | One in the care of una madre |
| 44% | TREASURE | 8 | The __ of the Sierra Madre, US film from late 1940s |
| 43% | TAHOE | 5 | Lake —, body of water in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada, US |
| 42% | SEQUOIA | 7 | National park in the south of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in 52-Across |
| 42% | SAN | 3 | & 15D River rising in the Sierra Nevada that forms a large delta with the Sacramento River near Suisun Bay |
| 40% | FREDCDOBBS | 10 | Humphrey Bogart's role in 1948's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre": 3 wds. |
| 39% | MOOD | 4 | In the ___ |
| 39% | KNOW | 4 | In the ___ |
| 39% | LOOP | 4 | In the ___ |
| 39% | SWIM | 4 | In the ___ |
| 39% | MEANTTOBE | 9 | In the *** |