| 100% | CRIME | 5 | Error that leads to trial |
| 65% | RIVONIA | 7 | Trial that led to Nelson Mandela's imprisonment |
| 54% | PRIMROSEPATH | 12 | Easy way that might lead to error |
| 54% | VIA | 3 | Road that leads to Rome? |
| 54% | URIC | 4 | Acid that leads to gout |
| 54% | ONRAMPS | 7 | Things that lead to mergers? |
| 54% | ITERS | 5 | Things that lead to Rome? |
| 53% | DUEL | 4 | Contest that leads to a draw |
| 53% | BRIGHTIDEA | 10 | Notion that leads to a solution |
| 53% | END | 3 | Dead-___ (road that leads to nowhere) |
| 53% | SKA | 3 | Music genre that led to reggae |
| 52% | SUEZ | 4 | Canal that leads to the Red Sea |
| 52% | RAMP | 4 | Access road that leads to a highway |
| 52% | HYPERLINK | 9 | Clickable text that leads to a website |
| 52% | TIE | 3 | Kind of score that leads to overtime |
| 52% | ARTERIOLE | 9 | Thin blood vessel that leads to capillaries |
| 52% | APOLLO | 6 | Project that led to the first moonwalk |
| 52% | JAG | 3 | TV military drama that led to "NCIS" |
| 52% | TEATAX | 6 | Levy that led to a 1773 "party" |
| 51% | TRAGIC | 6 | __ flaw, trait that leads to protagonist's downfall |
| 51% | ELBE | 4 | German river that leads to the North Sea |
| 51% | ASSIST | 6 | Pass that leads to a score, in basketball |
| 51% | TEA | 3 | Tax that led to a party in Boston |
| 51% | JAG | 3 | TV military drama that led to 11-Down |
| 50% | ADHD | 4 | Condition that leads to one being easily distracted: Abbr. |
| 50% | EMILE | 5 | Rousseau work that led to his banishment from France |
| 50% | GREATSMOG | 9 | London pollution event that led to clean air acts |
| 50% | DUMBARTON | 9 | __ Oaks, conference that led to founding of the UN |
| 49% | SETUP | 5 | Part of a joke that leads to the punch line |
| 49% | BPLUS | 5 | Grade that leads to a 3.3 G.P.A. |