| 100% | ALFAS | 5 | First letters for radio operators |
| 53% | WALT | 4 | Good call letters for Radio Disney? |
| 49% | UBOAT | 5 | Its first letter stands for "untersee" |
| 49% | IPA | 3 | Its first letter stands for "India" |
| 49% | DDT | 3 | Its first letter stands for "dichloro-" |
| 48% | DEA | 3 | Agency whose first letter stands for Drug |
| 48% | VCHIP | 5 | Technology whose first letter stands for "violence" |
| 47% | BLT | 3 | Sandwich whose first letter stands for 11-Down |
| 47% | RNA | 3 | Genetic material whose first letter stands for "ribo" |
| 47% | SMS | 3 | Digital protocol whose first letter stands for short |
| 47% | XPLANE | 6 | Research aircraft whose first letter stands for "experimental" |
| 47% | UBOAT | 5 | Naval craft whose first letter stands for untersee |
| 47% | XXXX | 4 | Its first letter doesn't stand for "oil" |
| 46% | EAR | 3 | What the first letter of 56-Down stands for |
| 46% | RNA | 3 | Genetic material whose first letter stands for "ribo" (Abbr.) |
| 46% | AIR | 3 | What the first letter of 97 Down stands for |
| 45% | HRH | 3 | Regnal abbreviation whose first letter can stand for two different words |
| 45% | ESP | 3 | First three letters of the Spanish name for Spain |
| 45% | HYPERTEXT | 9 | First two letters in HTTP stand for this word |
| 45% | ACETYL | 6 | First six letters of the proper name for aspirin |
| 44% | OBOE | 4 | Old radio word for the letter O |
| 44% | DNA | 3 | Its first letter could aptly stand for Double (but it doesn't) |
| 44% | XFL | 3 | Gridiron org. whose first letter did not, in fact, stand for "extreme" |
| 43% | PCOS | 4 | Common condition whose first two letters stand for "polycystic" |
| 42% | GEICO | 5 | Insurance company whose first letter stands for "government," though it's a private company |
| 42% | LBS | 3 | Units whose name's first letter stands for an ancient-Roman unit of measurement |
| 41% | HMART | 5 | Supermarket chain whose name's first letter stands for the Korean phrase han ah reum |
| 41% | QTIP | 4 | A Tribe Called Quest member whose name's first letter stands for his home borough |
| 40% | INTER | 5 | Latin for "between" (and the first five letters of the contest answer) |
| 40% | ALCOA | 5 | Its first two letters are the chemical symbol for what it produces |