| 100% | GATO | 4 | Feline, to Francisco |
| 68% | PRIMERO | 7 | First, to Francisco |
| 66% | TOM | 3 | Feline to get married |
| 64% | TAT | 3 | Feline, to Tweety |
| 63% | KITTYCAT | 8 | Feline, to a tot |
| 63% | AMIGAS | 6 | Female friends, to Francisco |
| 60% | SAN | 3 | Lead-in to Francisco or Pedro |
| 57% | CATFOOD | 7 | Meat in jelly, for a feline to eat |
| 56% | CATTY | 5 | To act spiteful, like a feline |
| 54% | SCAT | 4 | "Get lost!," to a feline |
| 54% | CATNIP | 6 | Garden herbs irresistible to felines |
| 52% | FRANCO | 6 | Francisco __, ruled Spain from the '30s to the '70s |
| 51% | GOLDRUSH | 8 | Miner stampede to San Francisco in 1849 |
| 51% | JAGUAR | 6 | Largest feline in Americas, related to leopards |
| 51% | SSE | 3 | Dir. from San Francisco to Santa Cruz |
| 51% | BLACKCATS | 9 | Sooty felines believed to bring bad luck |
| 50% | UPCOAST | 7 | From Los Angeles to San Francisco, e.g. |
| 50% | BLACKCAT | 8 | Dark feline people don't like to cross |
| 50% | BLACKCAT | 8 | This feline is said to bring bad luck |
| 50% | CHEETAH | 7 | Large feline mammal; the swiftest known to man |
| 48% | CATNIP | 6 | A feline's preferred herb, said to aid relaxation |
| 48% | BENGAL | 6 | Domestic feline bred to look like a jungle cat |
| 45% | LEE | 3 | ___ Highway, old auto route from New York City to San Francisco |
| 45% | SOFTKITTY | 9 | Song about a cuddly feline, sung to Sheldon Cooper: 2 wds. |
| 44% | BEIRUT | 6 | Foreign capital whose name sounds like a water passage to San Francisco |
| 44% | PONYEXPRESS | 11 | Its first delivery went from St. Joseph, Missouri, to San Francisco (1860) |
| 44% | CATNIP | 6 | A herb that is minty in flavour and causes euphoria to felines |
| 42% | MANX | 4 | — cat, short-haired tailless feline believed to originate on the Isle of Man |
| 42% | SCAT | 4 | Word to get a feline to leave |
| 41% | ENE | 3 | San Francisco-to-Oakland dir. |