| 100% | SARI | 4 | Garment whose name is often spelled with "ee" at the end |
| 47% | GOOGLE | 6 | Company whose name is spelled with up to 10 O's toward the bottom of its webpages |
| 43% | BAKLAVA | 7 | Pastry whose name is often be confused with a skier's headgear |
| 42% | TEN | 3 | Largest integer whose name is spelled with three letters |
| 42% | KESHA | 5 | Pop star whose name was formerly spelled with a $ |
| 41% | ELLE | 4 | Fashion magazine whose name is spelled the same forward and backward |
| 41% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish band whose name is spelled the same backward and forward |
| 41% | LLAMA | 5 | Mammal whose name is spelled using only the letters of "mammal" |
| 41% | UNO | 3 | Game whose name is said at the "one card left" point |
| 41% | MACH | 4 | Physicist Ernst whose name is associated with the speed of sound |
| 41% | ENO | 3 | 24-Across co-producer, whose name is the song title spelled backward |
| 40% | JRS | 3 | People with II at the end of their full name, briefly |
| 40% | KESHA | 5 | "TiK ToK" singer whose name was formerly spelled with a $ |
| 40% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose name can be spelled with music notes |
| 40% | PERIOD | 6 | Punctuation mark at the end of the "We Are Young" pop group's name |
| 40% | OHM | 3 | Physics unit whose name is pronounced at the beginning of its representative Greek letter |
| 40% | EXAM | 4 | Test at the end of an academic year, with a name originating from Latin |
| 40% | URDU | 4 | Language whose name starts and ends with the same letter |
| 39% | GRAHAM | 6 | With 35-Across, writer whose novel "The End of the Affair" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name |
| 39% | OHIO | 4 | US state whose name starts and ends with the same letter |
| 39% | CHER | 4 | Singer/actress whose name can be found at the ends of 17-, 31-, and 43-Across |
| 39% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name is rhymed with “El Salvador, too,” in the “Animaniacs” song “Yakko’s World” |
| 39% | XYZAL | 5 | Anti-allergy brand whose name begins with the end of the alphabet |
| 39% | EWOK | 4 | Sci-fi creature whose name can be spelled with letters in Wookiee |
| 39% | KESHA | 5 | Pop star whose name used to be spelled with a dollar sign |
| 38% | OSLO | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize city whose name begins and ends with the letter "O" |
| 38% | PINOTNOIR | 9 | Red wine whose name ends with the French word for "black": 2 wds. |
| 38% | NORI | 4 | Food whose name spelled backwards is the name of a nutrient that it contains |
| 38% | KENO | 4 | Gambling game whose name spells a gambling town when the first letter is changed |
| 38% | YMCA | 4 | Village People hit whose title is often spelled out with arm movements |