| 100% | ROME | 4 | Capital of two states, it's said |
| 60% | TOPEKA | 6 | Capital whose last two letters are the first two letters of its state |
| 52% | TOPEKA | 6 | Capital that ends with its state's first two letters |
| 50% | ROUGE | 5 | Half of a two-word state capital |
| 49% | TIDE | 4 | One of two things that wait for no man, it's said |
| 49% | TIME | 4 | One of two things that wait for no man, it's said |
| 48% | SALEM | 5 | Capital of the only state with a two-sided flag using different designs on each side |
| 47% | IDO | 3 | It's said at the exchange of Os |
| 47% | SALEM | 5 | Capital of the U.S. state of Oregon |
| 47% | CHARLESTON | 10 | The Capital of the only US state to have its sovereignty proclaimed by a president |
| 47% | VERMONT | 7 | State whose last four letters are the first four letters of its capital |
| 47% | WVA | 3 | One of two states formed during the U.S. Civil War |
| 47% | SHOO | 4 | It's said with a wave of the hand |
| 47% | ACHOO | 5 | It's said with a snap of the head |
| 47% | FAILURE | 7 | It's said to be "the mother of success" |
| 47% | VARIETY | 7 | It's said to be the spice of life |
| 46% | MUTUAL | 6 | It's between the two of us |
| 46% | MUMBAI | 6 | The capital of India's Maharashtra state |
| 46% | NORTH | 5 | Start of two U.S. state names |
| 46% | ONE | 3 | Number of states whose last two letters are its own postal abbreviation |
| 46% | WVA | 3 | One of two states formed during the U.S Civil War: Abbr. |
| 46% | HORSEMEN | 8 | It's said four of these will bring the apocalypse |
| 46% | IMITATION | 9 | It's said to be the sincerest form of flattery |
| 46% | LAKETAHOE | 9 | It straddles the border of two western states |
| 46% | IOWA | 4 | It's three states west of 2-Down |
| 46% | VATICAN | 7 | __ City; capital of the Pope's city state |
| 46% | HELSINKI | 8 | It's the capital of Finland |
| 46% | BRISBANE | 8 | State capital of Australia's Queensland |
| 45% | KOREANS | 7 | Citizens of two states |
| 45% | PIERRE | 6 | Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state |