| 100% | TANDOORICHICKEN | 15 | Dish named for the oven in which it’s cooked |
| 60% | BEERCANCHICKEN | 14 | Poultry dish named for the vessel it's cooked around |
| 58% | TAGINE | 6 | Maghrebi stew named for the pot it's cooked in |
| 56% | POTAUFEU | 8 | French dish named for the method used to cook it |
| 55% | SNOWCRAB | 8 | Seafood named for the cold oceans in which it's commonly found |
| 50% | KONA | 4 | Coffee named for the district it's grown in |
| 47% | TANDOORI | 8 | ___ chicken (Indian dish named after the clay oven it is prepared in) |
| 46% | DANCEHALL | 9 | Reggae genre named for the building it plays in |
| 45% | HABANERO | 8 | Pepper named for a city in which it was widely traded |
| 45% | TECATE | 6 | Mexican beer named for the city it was first produced in |
| 43% | ORALB | 5 | The "B" in its name stands for "brush" |
| 43% | HOTPOT | 6 | Dish in which ingredients are cooked at the table |
| 43% | GREASER | 7 | Name for tough kid in S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders |
| 42% | SIERRA | 6 | It stands for S in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 42% | PIZZAMARGHERITA | 15 | Dish named for the queen consort of Italy's Umberto I |
| 42% | NEWMOON | 7 | Lunar phase in which it's the opposite of full |
| 42% | SHAG | 4 | Nickname for the artist Josh Agle (it's hidden in his name) |
| 41% | RAIN | 4 | Its name in Botswana is the same as the word for "money" |
| 41% | SHEAF | 5 | River in Sheffield from which the city derives its name |
| 41% | DRUNKEN | 7 | Descriptor for noodles and chicken, in the names of dishes |
| 41% | SDAK | 4 | Only U.S. state in which the name of the state and its capital share no letters: Abbr. |
| 40% | HURON | 5 | Michigan county named for the lake that's next to it |
| 40% | MOSELLE | 7 | White wine named for the European river valley where it's produced |
| 40% | ATL | 3 | Coming-of-age film named for the city where it's set |
| 40% | TAGINE | 6 | North African stew, or the dish it's cooked in |
| 40% | THEBIGDIPPER | 12 | Current name for the arrangement of the O's in this puzzle |
| 40% | THEGREATWAGON | 13 | Old name for the arrangement of the O's in this puzzle |
| 40% | THESEVENOXEN | 12 | Old name for the arrangement of the O's in this puzzle |
| 40% | ALBANY | 6 | It's named for the Duke of York |
| 40% | PEYOTE | 6 | It's taken for trips in the desert |