| 100% | RIME | 4 | Frost formed by the freezing of supercooled water droplets in fog onto solid objects |
| 77% | RIME | 4 | Frost formed by the freezing of water droplets in fog onto solid objects |
| 28% | DEW | 3 | Drops of water that form in the night |
| 28% | DEEPPURPLE | 10 | English rock band formed in 1968 and led by Ian Gillan, who gave us hits like "Soldier of Fortune" and "Smoke on the Water": 2 wds. |
| 28% | SANDBAR | 7 | Ridge of beach formed in water by tides/currents |
| 28% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water parted by Moses in the Bible |
| 27% | GIRONDE | 7 | Estuary in France formed by the confluence of the Rivers Dordogne and Garonne |
| 27% | VEVO | 4 | Video music hosting group, formed by two of the "big three" record companies in the US |
| 26% | AQUEDUCT | 8 | Channel built for water, in the form of a bridge |
| 26% | SHATTALARAB | 11 | River in SE Iraq formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
| 26% | TWOSISTERS | 10 | 1970 work by Gore Vidal subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir |
| 26% | THUN | 4 | Lake —, body of water in central Switzerland formed by a widening of the Aare River |
| 25% | INDIAN | 6 | & 4D Large body of water bordered by Africa in the west and Australia in the east |
| 25% | YAZOO | 5 | River in Mississippi, US, formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha Rivers |
| 25% | CANYOU | 6 | & 10D First of the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope published in serial form in 1864 and 1865 |
| 25% | PERSEVERANCE | 12 | Subject of the adage formed by the starts of nine long answers in this puzzle |
| 25% | SEACAVE | 7 | Hole formed by the wave action of the sea |
| 25% | ICEBERGS | 8 | Large blocks of frozen water floating in the sea |
| 25% | DEW | 3 | Water droplets on grass in the morning |
| 25% | VOLTA | 5 | Name of the Ghanaian lake formed by the largest artificial reservoir in the world |
| 24% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 24% | DEW | 3 | Water droplets on the lawn in the morning |
| 24% | ICE | 3 | Solid form of water |
| 24% | UNISON | 6 | Trade union formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of COHSE, NALGO, and NUPE |
| 24% | ACRONYM | 7 | Word formed by the first letters of a series of words |
| 24% | GRAND | 5 | Deep gorge formed by the Colorado River in northern Arizona, US |
| 24% | EEC | 3 | Grp. formed by the Treaty of Rome, 1957 |
| 24% | MIDST | 5 | In the ___ of (surrounded by) |