| 100% | MUMBAI | 6 | Current name for the city of Bombay, India |
| 60% | KOLN | 4 | German name for the city of Cologne |
| 59% | HOLMIUM | 7 | Chemical element named for the city of Stockholm |
| 59% | HAFNIUM | 7 | Element #72, named for the city of Copenhagen |
| 59% | HONAN | 5 | Older name for the city of Zhengzhou's province |
| 56% | THEBIGDIPPER | 12 | Current name for the arrangement of the O's in this puzzle |
| 54% | CANTON | 6 | Former name for the Chinese city of Guangzhou |
| 54% | MAMUCIUM | 8 | Roman name for the modern city of Manchester |
| 51% | ILIUM | 5 | The Latin name for the ancient city of Troy |
| 51% | HERON | 5 | — Tower, popular name for the tallest building in the City of London financial district |
| 50% | ADA | 3 | Oklahoma city named for the daughter of its first 4-Down |
| 50% | POMONA | 6 | California city named for the Roman goddess of fruit |
| 49% | ANGORA | 6 | Old city name for the location of the Turkey's Alaeddin Mosque |
| 49% | PONCE | 5 | Puerto Rican city named for the descendant of an explorer |
| 49% | NAPOLI | 6 | Italian name for a port city often credited as the home of pizza |
| 47% | ASPEN | 5 | Colorado ski city named for the abundance of a certain tree in the area |
| 47% | ENID | 4 | Oklahoma city named for an "Idylls of the King" woman |
| 46% | ADELAIDE | 8 | City of 1.1 million named for the wife of King William IV |
| 46% | COOPER | 6 | Writer for whose father the National Baseball Hall of Fame city was named |
| 46% | ATL | 3 | Coming-of-age film named for the city where it's set |
| 46% | ANTHROPOCENE | 12 | The current geological age, named for the impact of humans on the Earth’s systems |
| 45% | COOPERKUPP | 10 | Current Rams wide receiver named the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year for 2021: 2 wds. |
| 45% | REDARMY | 7 | Name for the armed forces of the USSR |
| 45% | HOGLET | 6 | Name for the young of prickly garden mammal |
| 45% | TECATE | 6 | Mexican beer named for the city it was first produced in |
| 45% | DENVERBOOT | 10 | Car-immobilizing device named for the city where it was invented |
| 45% | SANTODOMINGO | 12 | Capital city of the Dominican Republic whose baseball stadium is named for Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal (2 wds.) |
| 44% | NAPOLI | 6 | Native name for the third-largest Italian city |
| 44% | ABYSSINIA | 9 | Another name for the former empire of Ethiopia |
| 44% | JUTLAND | 7 | English name for the Danish area of Jylland |