| 100% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | City that had the final letter of its name removed in 1891, only to be restored in 1911 |
| 46% | GALWAY | 6 | "___ Girl," song by English singer Ed Sheeran which has the name of an Irish city in its title that is home to Eyre Square |
| 40% | FOUR | 4 | Only number that equals the number of letters in its English name |
| 40% | LONDON | 6 | "___ Calling," song by British punk rock band the Clash which has the name of a city in its title that is known for the clock tower"Big Ben" |
| 38% | HOME | 4 | "___ stretch," common phrase used to refer to the final part of an activity, that has its origins in horse racing |
| 37% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish pop band that has the first letter of each member on its name |
| 37% | MIAMI | 5 | "Move to ___," hit song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias which has the name of a Florida city in its title |
| 36% | HAWAII | 6 | "Blue ___," hit song that was used in Elvis Presley's titular movie which has the name of Barack Obama's birth state in its title |
| 36% | ABBR | 4 | Letters that may follow some of the clues in the Vox crossword due to it being a small, but not that easy, puzzle |
| 35% | MATTEL | 6 | Toy giant which announced that the Alaskan city of Juneau would be changing the name of its capital to Uno as an April Fools' Day prank |
| 35% | FANNYPACK | 9 | Bag that may be worn over the shoulder, in spite of its name |
| 35% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 35% | OLAY | 4 | Skin care brand that used to have "Oil of" in front of its name |
| 35% | LUTE | 4 | Instrument that becomes another instrument when "F" is added to the start of its name |
| 35% | ASP | 3 | Animal that becomes another animal when w is added to the beginning of its name |
| 35% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name becomes that of a currency when its second letter is doubled and its last two letters are moved to the front |
| 35% | PIERRE | 6 | Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state |
| 35% | ERIE | 4 | City in Pennsylvania that shares its name with one of the Great Lakes |
| 35% | ANDRETTI | 8 | Only person to be named Driver of the Year in three different decades |
| 34% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | Only person in the arts ever to be named Time's Person of the Year |
| 34% | LUTE | 4 | Stringed instrument that becomes a woodwind instrument when an F is added to the start of its name |
| 34% | SANTA | 5 | It can precede eight first names in this puzzle to form the names of California cities |
| 33% | AOL | 3 | ISP that dropped the long form of its name in 2006 |
| 33% | BASRA | 5 | Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" |
| 33% | HBOMAX | 6 | Streaming service that dropped the first three letters of its name when it rebranded in 2023 |
| 33% | BULLET | 6 | Bit of ammo that one might want to "dodge" and has a "bull" in its name |
| 33% | TIBER | 5 | Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 BC on the banks of this river |
| 33% | QUEUE | 5 | Only English word that's pronounced the same after its last four letters are removed |
| 33% | COSMOPOLITAN | 12 | Fashion magazine for women that has been in publication since 1886, and is often referred to by its shorter name |
| 33% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |