| 100% | TAHOE | 5 | California freshwater lake with a name that translates to "edge of the lake" in Washoe |
| 48% | AVON | 4 | River in England with a name that translates to "river" in Celtic language |
| 48% | GOBI | 4 | Cold desert in Mongolia with a name that translates to "waterless place" in Mongolian |
| 47% | SAHARA | 6 | World's largest hot desert in Africa with a name that translates to "desert" in Arabic |
| 42% | ERIE | 4 | City in Pennsylvania that shares its name with one of the Great Lakes |
| 42% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 42% | OKEECHOBEE | 10 | Lake —, freshwater body of water in Florida that drains to the Atlantic Ocean via the Everglades |
| 41% | AMAZON | 6 | ___ River, waterbody in South America that is central to a rainforest of the same name |
| 41% | EDINBURGH | 9 | A town in Indiana that shares its name with the capital of Scotland |
| 41% | RAMSBOTTOM | 10 | Town in Greater Manchester that shares its name with a snake companion of the puppet Sooty |
| 40% | NEUTRON | 7 | Uncharged elementary particle with a mass nearly equal to that of the proton |
| 40% | CROUCHEND | 9 | Area in the London Borough of Haringey that shares its name with a 1980 Stephen King short story |
| 40% | LECOQ | 5 | With 36-Across, French title of a Rimsky-Korsakov opera that translates to "The Golden Rooster" |
| 40% | OREGANO | 7 | Herb whose name translates to "brightness of the mountain" in Classical Greek |
| 39% | ALEC | 4 | Name that anagrams to the name of a fabric |
| 39% | BEE | 3 | ___ hummingbird, colorful small bird endemic to the island of Cuba that shares part of its name with a honey-producing insect |
| 39% | EMIL | 4 | Name that anagrams to the name of a citrus fruit |
| 39% | SMOG | 4 | Fog that has combined with excessive smoke in the air, often leading to a lot of lung diseases |
| 38% | SSN | 3 | Tom Clancy's '96 techno-thriller novel about a nuclear attack sub that tied in with a video game of the same name |
| 38% | MWA | 3 | Fraternal org. founded in 1883, now with over 740,000 members, that was to protect families after the death of a breadwinner. (abbr.) |
| 38% | PARIS | 5 | "From hell to breakfast in ___," idiom with the French capital that means "go through a wide range of experiences" |
| 38% | HERMES | 6 | French luxury-goods maker that shares a name with the Greek messenger of the gods |
| 38% | DENIM | 5 | Material with a name that comes from a shortening of the French for "serge from Nîmes" |
| 38% | DETAIL | 6 | "Attention to ___," complete the phrase with a word that ends in "ail" |
| 37% | GST | 3 | Facility for studies of the Sun with a 1.7 meter mirror, that's located on the north shore of California's Big Near Lake (abbr.) |
| 37% | BRIE | 4 | Grayish white cheese that originated from a French region of the same name and is considered to be in a low lactose range of 0-2% |
| 37% | DORIS | 5 | Name of a weather bomb that hit the UK in 2017 |
| 37% | ERIE | 4 | Town in “That Thing You Do!” with the same name as a Great Lake |
| 37% | WHITE | 5 | ___ House, residence of the POTUS in Washington, D.C. that has a colorful name |
| 37% | BLARNEY | 7 | — Castle, stronghold in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, housing a stone said to endow those who kiss it with the gift of flattery |