| 100% | NNE | 3 | From N.M. to N.D |
| 80% | SSE | 3 | From N.D. to La. |
| 70% | ENE | 3 | From La. to N.C. |
| 63% | SSE | 3 | Heading from Ottawa to N.Y.C. |
| 63% | ENE | 3 | Dir. from Pittsburgh to N.Y.C. |
| 61% | SUM | 3 | n(n+1)/2, for all integers from 1 to n |
| 60% | TAN | 3 | M&M color from 1949 to 1995 |
| 59% | RTE11 | 5 | Way from Syracuse, N.Y., to Harrisburg, Pa. |
| 59% | STEP | 4 | Interval from C to D, musically |
| 58% | IRVINGBERLIN | 12 | To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y. |
| 58% | ACELA | 5 | High-speed train from Boston to Washington, D.C. |
| 58% | SSE | 3 | Dir. from D.C. to Virginia Beach |
| 57% | CLE | 3 | N.B.A. Eastern Conference champions from 2015 to 2018 |
| 57% | SOSA | 4 | 1998 N.L. M.V.P. from Chicago |
| 55% | STARS | 5 | Minnesota N.H.L. team from 1967 to 1993 |
| 54% | ERS | 3 | Where to find M.D.s and R.N.s |
| 54% | KOBE | 4 | 2007-08 N.B.A. M.V.P., to fans |
| 53% | ESIASON | 7 | 1988 N.F.L. M.V.P. from the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 53% | ACELA | 5 | It travels from D.C. to Boston in about seven hours |
| 52% | OMAR | 4 | ___ Epps from "House, M.D." |
| 52% | OST | 3 | Direction from Luxembourg to Nürnberg |
| 52% | MLK | 3 | Reformer from the time of D.D.E. to L.B.J. |
| 51% | REDS | 4 | M&M's that were discontinued from 1976 to 1987 over fears about their dye |
| 51% | SOGLAD | 6 | "I'm __ to hear from you!" |
| 50% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Image formed by connecting this puzzle's circled letters from A to N and then back to A |
| 50% | BUS | 3 | "Get on the ___" (1996 Spike Lee film about men traveling from L.A. to D.C.) |
| 50% | APPT | 4 | Visit to the M.D. |
| 50% | NARES | 5 | Nostrils, to your M.D. |
| 49% | ENE | 3 | N.M.-to-N.J. dir. |
| 48% | AOC | 3 | N.Y.C. rep from whom the D.S.A.’s national committee withdrew its endorsement (July, 2024) |