| 100% | TOPEKA | 6 | City whose name is Siouan for "a good place to dig potatoes" |
| 89% | TOPEKA | 6 | City whose name is Siouan for "a good place to grow potatoes" |
| 83% | TOPEKA | 6 | City whose name is Siouan for "good place to dig potatoes" |
| 41% | PLANO | 5 | City whose name is Spanish for "flat" |
| 41% | FRESNO | 6 | City whose name is Spanish for "ash tree" |
| 41% | LASVEGAS | 8 | City whose name is Spanish for "the meadows" |
| 40% | ORURO | 5 | Bolivian city whose name is a palindrome |
| 40% | OMAHA | 5 | Midwest city whose name is a poker variety |
| 40% | AHEAD | 5 | Good place to be in a race |
| 40% | INSIDE | 6 | Good place to be during a blizzard |
| 39% | NOME | 4 | City whose name is pronounced like the natives' word for "Where is ...?" |
| 39% | OCALA | 5 | City whose name is derived from a Timucua Indian name |
| 39% | PLANO | 5 | Texas city whose name is the Spanish word for "flat" |
| 39% | PLANO | 5 | Texas city whose name is Spanish for "flat" |
| 39% | DARKROOM | 8 | Best place to rest for a migraine sufferer |
| 39% | SEATAC | 6 | Northwestern city whose name is a portmanteau of two neighboring cities |
| 39% | NOME | 4 | Alaskan city whose name is an anagram of a Pixar fish |
| 39% | FRESNO | 6 | California city whose name is Spanish for "ash tree" |
| 39% | BASRA | 5 | City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS |
| 39% | UPWIND | 6 | Good place to be, in relation to a skunk |
| 38% | AMOR | 4 | Deity whose name is a city in Italia backwards |
| 38% | LUCAS | 5 | George whose name is a lead-in to "film" |
| 38% | ORANGE | 6 | Color whose name is said to lack a rhyme |
| 38% | RISK | 4 | Board game whose name is a synonym for "peril" |
| 38% | APE | 3 | Animal whose name is also a synonym for "mimic" |
| 38% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain whose name is a byword for obsession |
| 38% | DODGE | 5 | Automaker whose name is a synonym for 6-Across |
| 38% | SEOUL | 5 | Asian capital city whose name is a homophone of 5-Down and 9-Across |
| 37% | LAPORTE | 7 | Galveston Bay city whose name is French for “the door” |
| 37% | LIMA | 4 | Ohio city whose name is pronounced with a long "I" |