| 100% | RIAL | 4 | Currency whose name can become its country's name by changing its last letter to an N and scrambling |
| 51% | LEBARON | 7 | Chrysler model whose name becomes that of a country when its fifth letter is changed to an n |
| 46% | 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 |
| 39% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q |
| 38% | SHARD | 5 | Item that can be described by changing its last letter to a P |
| 38% | ALBEN | 5 | Truman veep Barkley whose name sounds like a musical record if you change the last letter to an "m" |
| 36% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 34% | LAOS | 4 | Country whose name becomes its language when you drop its last letter |
| 34% | IRAN | 4 | It becomes another country when its last letter is changed to Q |
| 34% | HAITI | 5 | Country whose name anagrams to an island when its fourth letter is doubled |
| 34% | LEBARON | 7 | Car model whose name becomes an N.B.A. superstar when its middle letter is removed |
| 33% | ALDA | 4 | Actor whose last name is a 41-Down of his first name, after a D is changed to an N |
| 32% | LAO | 3 | Language that's the name of an Asian country minus its last letter |
| 32% | TEMPE | 5 | U.S. city whose name becomes another city's name if you change both its vowels to A's |
| 31% | SEAANIMAL | 9 | Category whose name becomes that of an example of the category when you combine the first word and the last letter of the second word |
| 31% | NIGEL | 5 | Man's name that's an African country if you change the last letter |
| 31% | JCCHASEZ | 8 | "It's Gonna Be Me" singer in N Sync whose name's first and last letters sound like "Jay-Z": 2 wds. |
| 31% | TINA | 4 | Girl's name that becomes a contraction when its first and last letters are switched |
| 30% | BAN | 3 | Word that becomes its own synonym when the last letter is changed to "r" |
| 29% | PAM | 3 | Product that becomes an item to which it's applied after shifting the last letter one spot down in the alphabet |
| 29% | ELIAS | 5 | Real name that becomes a fake one by changing its first letter |
| 29% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 29% | BELARUS | 7 | Country whose currency, RUBLES, is almost an anagram of its name |
| 28% | HIRE | 4 | Verb that becomes its opposite when its first letter is changed to an "f" |
| 28% | NOTRE | 5 | French word that becomes its own opposite by changing the first letter to V |
| 28% | SLY | 3 | Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to WI |
| 28% | SLY | 3 | Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to "WI" |
| 28% | DELTACO | 7 | Fast food chain whose name becomes another company when its last two letters are removed |
| 27% | RAM | 3 | Zodiac animal that spells another if you change its last letter to "t" |
| 27% | OMAN | 4 | Country whose name can be an exclamation |