| 100% | SWIMCAP | 7 | Coverage of the Summer Olympics? |
| 67% | HANDBALL | 8 | Sport only debuted in the Summer Olympics of 1936 |
| 66% | ROME | 4 | Site of the 1960 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | RIO | 3 | Host of the 2016 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | BEIJING | 7 | Host of the 2008 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | TOKYO | 5 | Host of the 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | ATLANTA | 7 | Host of the 1996 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | RIO | 3 | Site of the 2016 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | RIO | 3 | Home of the 2016 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | JESSEOWENS | 10 | Star of the 1936 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | PARIS | 5 | Host of the 2024 Summer Olympics |
| 66% | AMSTERDAM | 9 | Site of the 1928 Summer Olympics |
| 65% | RIO | 3 | Host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics |
| 65% | AUS | 3 | Home of the 2000 Summer Olympics: Abbr. |
| 65% | RIO | 3 | Host of the 2016 Summer Olympics, familiarly |
| 64% | JAPAN | 5 | Locale of the 1964 and 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 63% | MONTREAL | 8 | Host city of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Canada |
| 63% | RIO | 3 | Host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics, for short |
| 60% | PENTATHLON | 10 | Summer Olympics contest whose participants do the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | VINICIUS | 8 | Official mascot of the 2016 Summer Olympics that was named after a poet de Moraes |
| 58% | TOGAS | 5 | Coverage of the Senate? |
| 58% | RECAP | 5 | Coverage of the highlights |
| 58% | OLYMPIC | 7 | Of the Summer Games |
| 57% | TIARA | 5 | Coverage of the royal family? |
| 56% | EPEE | 4 | Type of sword used during the Summer Olympics |
| 55% | BELO | 4 | ___ Horizonte, one of the five cities in Brazil that hosted the football matches during the 2016 Summer Olympics |
| 55% | LEAPYEARS | 9 | The Summer Olympics are held in them |
| 55% | CHRISTTHEREDEEMER | 17 | Facebook Status: "2016 Summer Olympics and a day trip to one of the new Seven Wonders of the World!" |
| 54% | VAULT | 5 | Spring event in the Summer Olympics? |
| 54% | EPEE | 4 | Fencing sword at the Summer Olympics |