| 100% | SPARTA | 6 | City name that occurs 19 times across the US, but oddly, only twice in Greece |
| 32% | EAST | 4 | Only cardinal direction that’s not in the name of a U.S. state |
| 32% | EAST | 4 | Only cardinal direction that does not appear in the name of a U.S. state |
| 31% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | City that had the final letter of its name removed in 1891, only to be restored in 1911 |
| 29% | NEWYORK | 7 | The US city so nice, they named it twice |
| 29% | ALLAH | 5 | Name that appears 2,698 times in the Quran |
| 29% | MESAARIZONA | 11 | Only city that has two Spring Training stadiums in the 14-Across (2 wds.) |
| 28% | FLAN | 4 | Dessert name that has different meanings in the UK and US |
| 28% | ATLANTA | 7 | US city that hosted the Summer Olympics in 1996 |
| 27% | SEATTLE | 7 | City in Washington, US, that hosted the 1962 World's Fair |
| 27% | SALTLAKE | 8 | City in the US that hosted 2002 Winter Olympics |
| 27% | REALGAR | 7 | Rare orange-red mineral that occurs in Romania and the US state of Utah |
| 27% | SPOKANE | 7 | City in Washington, US, that hosted the Expo '74 world's fair |
| 27% | ROANOKE | 7 | City in Virginia, US, that houses the man-made Mill Mountain Star |
| 27% | FOUR | 4 | Only number that equals the number of letters in its English name |
| 27% | MARTHAGRAHAM | 12 | US choreographer named Dancer of the Century by Time magazine in 1998 |
| 27% | ASPEN | 5 | Tree that's the name of a city in Colorado |
| 27% | RACERIOT | 8 | One of more than 150 that occurred in the US during the summer of 1967 |
| 27% | EMMA | 4 | Girls' name that's been top five in the U.S. every year since 2002 |
| 27% | EAST | 4 | Only main compass direction that doesn't appear in a US state name |
| 27% | ERIE | 4 | City in Pennsylvania that shares its name with one of the Great Lakes |
| 27% | OMAHA | 5 | U.S. city that might be named when calling an audible, in football |
| 26% | ATLANTA | 7 | U.S. city that's home to 71 streets with "Peachtree" in their names |
| 26% | PHILADELPHIA | 12 | City in Pennsylvania, US, that saw the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 |
| 26% | ROSWELL | 7 | City in New Mexico, US, that housed the Walker Air Force Base from 1942-67 |
| 26% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | Only person in the arts ever to be named Time's Person of the Year |
| 26% | DETROIT | 7 | The ___ Wheels, rock band that features USA's Fox Theatre's city in its name |
| 26% | OREO | 4 | Snack that's the most-used brand name in New York Times crosswords |
| 26% | ELON | 4 | Name of the muskox sculpture that sits outside Yellowknife City Hall in Canada's Northwest Territories |
| 26% | SALT | 4 | ___ Lake City, US city that was host to the Winter Olympics held in 2002 |