| 100% | MUSCOGEE | 8 | College of the ___ Nation (school in Okmulgee, Oklahoma) |
| 54% | FRESHMAN | 8 | Student in the first year of high school or college |
| 47% | ANNARBOR | 8 | Home of the Wolverines in college sports |
| 47% | LUND | 4 | Home of the oldest school in Sweden, founded in 1085 |
| 46% | DOTHEBOYS | 9 | __ Hall, school in the story of Nicholas Nickleby |
| 46% | NAIVE | 5 | Not schooled in the ways of the world |
| 46% | ETHIOPIA | 8 | Nation in the horn of africa |
| 46% | IONA | 4 | Home of the Gaels, in college sports |
| 46% | MARM | 4 | Head of the class, in pioneer schools |
| 45% | CORN | 4 | Iowa leads the nation in production of this crop (16%) |
| 45% | RICE | 4 | Arkansas leads the nation in production of this crop (49%) |
| 45% | GRAPES | 6 | California leads the nation in production of this crop (99%) |
| 45% | UCF | 3 | School of the Knights in Orange County: Abbr. |
| 45% | ADA | 3 | Oklahoma home of the Chickasaw Nation |
| 44% | ETHIOPIA | 8 | Nation that defeated Italy in the Battle of Adwa |
| 44% | TULSA | 5 | City in the US state of Oklahoma |
| 44% | DJIBOUTI | 8 | Smallest nation in the Horn of Africa |
| 44% | ETON | 4 | One of the schools named in the Public Schools Act of 1868 |
| 44% | KABUL | 5 | Capital of the country that's alphabetically first in the United Nations |
| 44% | IVYLEAGUE | 9 | Seven of the schools in this group were established prior to 1770 |
| 44% | MALDIVES | 8 | Nation of over 1,000 islands in the Indian Ocean |
| 44% | CARR | 4 | Lloyd in the College Football Hall of Fame |
| 44% | ANNARBOR | 8 | Home of the Big House in college football |
| 44% | ARA | 3 | Parseghian in the College Football Hall of Fame |
| 44% | HOLTZ | 5 | Lou in the College Football Hall of Fame |
| 44% | OMAN | 4 | One of two sultanates in the United Nations |
| 44% | BRUNEI | 6 | One of two sultanates in the United Nations |
| 44% | ART | 3 | Word in the name of many design colleges |
| 44% | NYU | 3 | Tisch School of the Arts college |
| 43% | BOWLGAME | 8 | Either of the College Football Playoff semifinals featured in this puzzle (2 wds.) |