| 100% | ALN | 3 | English river mentioned by Ptolemy and the site of a still-occupied castle dating from about 1096 |
| 32% | GLENCOE | 7 | Site in Scotland of a 1692 massacre of the MacDonalds by the Campbells and English troops |
| 28% | ALAMOGORDO | 10 | Site of a blast from the past |
| 28% | KIND | 4 | "One Of A ___," song from the 2021 film "Vivo" performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Juan de Marcos Gonzalez |
| 28% | AWASH | 5 | Major Ethiopian river of about 745 miles currently straddled by the Koka and Tendaho dams |
| 27% | SOUTHPOLE | 9 | Site of a placard bearing the names Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen |
| 26% | PAPYRUS | 7 | Tall aquatic Mediterranean plant from whose pithy stem a kind of paper was made by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans |
| 26% | LETITBE | 7 | The name of a song and album by the Beatles |
| 26% | WHATISWYE | 9 | … English river, site of the ruins of Tintern Abbey |
| 26% | FISHERMAN | 9 | "The ___ and the Little Fish," a popular fable by 38-Down about a small fish that begs for its life on account of its size |
| 26% | MONTECASSINO | 12 | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 |
| 26% | EASTERNCOUGAR | 13 | A subspecies of puma from North America which was formally declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 26% | LOLLIPOP | 8 | The name of a song by Lil Wayne and The Chordettes |
| 25% | JERRYSEINFELD | 13 | The lead character from "Seinfeld", who is a semi-fictional version of the actor who plays the role and goes by the same name: 2 wds. |
| 25% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author of “Let Us Descend,” about Annis, a enslaved girl who is separated from her mother and sold by her white father (October, 2023) |
| 25% | CASTLESMADEOF | 13 | "___ Sand," a song by Jimi Hendrix that is about the temporary nature of existence and how nothing can be taken for granted: 3 wds. |
| 25% | NASEBY | 6 | Village in Northamptonshire; site of a 1645 victory for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War |
| 25% | IWON | 4 | The name of a hit 2014 single by Future and Kanye West: 2 wds. |
| 25% | WESER | 5 | River formed by the junction of the Fulda and Werra |
| 25% | ELLIPSIS | 8 | The omission of words from a text, shown by dots |
| 25% | IOWA | 4 | Site of a Democratic caucus dogged by delays and a buggy mobile app developed by Shadow, Inc. (February, 2020) |
| 25% | FATALE | 6 | Natasha ___, a female villain from the 2000 "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" film voiced by Rene Russo |
| 25% | POLTAVA | 7 | City in Ukraine on the Vorskla River; site of a 1709 battle between Russia and Sweden |
| 25% | SHIHTZU | 7 | Small dog of a breed derived from crossing the Tibetan apso and Pekingese |
| 25% | ERA | 3 | A period of time, usually mentioned when talking about the past |
| 25% | OKA | 3 | Site of a 78 day, 1990 armed standoff in Quebec between the Mohawk First Nation and the Government of Quebec |
| 24% | SPIDER | 6 | "The ___ and the Fly," poem by Mary Howitt about a manipulative web-spinner |
| 24% | EYES | 4 | "A Pair of Blue ___," 1873 novel by Thomas Hardy about the love triangle of Elfride Swancourt and her two suitors |
| 24% | TENN | 4 | State trisected by a river of the same name: Abbr. |