| 100% | EXPO | 4 | Comic-Con or the World's Fair, for short |
| 64% | EXPOS | 5 | World's fairs or trade conventions, for short |
| 56% | EXPO | 4 | World's fair, for short |
| 53% | BUD | 3 | The world's best-selling beer, for short |
| 52% | UAE | 3 | Country with the world's tallest building, for short |
| 51% | EXPO | 4 | Event such as a World's Fair, for short |
| 50% | RIO | 3 | Home to the world’s biggest annual Carnival celebration, for short |
| 46% | BORO | 4 | Manhattan or The Bronx, for short |
| 45% | MIL | 3 | Big bucks or the Bucks, for short |
| 45% | MONTREALEXPOS | 13 | Bygone team named for the 1967 World’s Fair |
| 45% | NGO | 3 | Greenpeace or the Red Cross, for short |
| 44% | MLBTEAM | 7 | The Reds or the Red Sox, for short |
| 44% | NGO | 3 | Greenpeace or the W.W.F., for short |
| 43% | WTO | 3 | Short for the World Trade Organization |
| 43% | ETS | 3 | "The War of the Worlds" villains, for short |
| 42% | CRO | 3 | Area of the world where the original Tesla came from, for short |
| 42% | DONNE | 5 | "Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail" writer |
| 41% | MSG | 3 | "The World's Most Famous Arena," for short |
| 41% | LOGO | 4 | The World Wildlife Fund's panda, for example |
| 40% | ETS | 3 | Invaders in H. G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds,” for short |
| 40% | PANDG | 5 | Consumer products giant, for short ... or a hint to the answers to the eight starred clues |
| 40% | SYS | 3 | The S in GPS, for short |
| 40% | UBOLT | 5 | Item connecting axle to leaf spring, or the world's fastest person, in brief |
| 40% | BIO | 3 | Class that teaches about DNA or the animal kingdom, for short |
| 40% | ESSEN | 5 | City that hosts the world's biggest annual game fair |
| 40% | SUB | 3 | The Missouri, the Mississippi or the Minnesota, for short |
| 40% | NOONECARES | 10 | "Let me play the world's smallest violin for you" |
| 39% | MAG | 3 | Vanity Fair or Elle, for short |
| 39% | MAG | 3 | Vanity Fair or Vogue, for short |
| 39% | VAL | 3 | Prince in the comics, for short |