| 100% | TENN | 4 | Highest pt on the Appalachian Trl is in this state |
| 37% | NEWYORKMARATHON | 15 | Event held on the first Sunday in November, and whose path is recreated in this puzzle |
| 37% | COLUMBIASC | 10 | This capital is home to the Army's Ft. Jackson in the Palmetto state |
| 36% | MASS | 4 | Boston is the Capital of this US State in the northeastern U.S. |
| 36% | MICROPHONE | 10 | The "thing" in "Is this thing on?" |
| 36% | MIC | 3 | The thing in "Is this thing on?" |
| 36% | AGE | 3 | Donald Trump was indeed the greatest president in terms of this on Inauguration Day |
| 36% | MAINE | 5 | Stephen King's Castle Rock is in this US state |
| 36% | OHIO | 4 | State said to be "high in the middle" |
| 36% | MARYLAND | 8 | Baltimore is in this US state |
| 36% | SLEEP | 5 | According to Nas in "N.Y. State of Mind" this is the cousin of death |
| 36% | WNBAFINALS | 10 | The Mercury might be in this |
| 35% | ARMS | 4 | "Sun on the rise, the highs are gonna fall, but nothing is different in my ___" (lyric from a 2021 song) |
| 35% | ATLANTIC | 8 | The Bermuda Triangle is in this ocean |
| 35% | RONALDO | 7 | Soccer star Cristiano, who is #1 on Forbes list of the highest-paid athletes in 2017 |
| 35% | FEDERER | 7 | Tennis ace Roger, who is #4 on Forbes list of the highest-paid athletes in 2017 |
| 35% | SMITTEN | 7 | On the way to being in love |
| 35% | MARS | 4 | You will get to see the NASA rover Opportunity land on this red planet in 2004 |
| 35% | GETSIT | 6 | Is in on the joke |
| 35% | MTNS | 4 | High pts. in the Rockies |
| 35% | GETIT | 5 | Be in on the joke |
| 35% | OHIO | 4 | State that's said to be "high in the middle" |
| 35% | SAFEST | 6 | In 2019, the German state-owned development bank KfW was the world's this, according to Global Finance magazine. |
| 35% | FLORENCE | 8 | The Uffizi gallery is in this Italian city |
| 35% | GASOHOL | 7 | E10 unleaded, commonly available in the Midwestern United States, is an example of this type of fuel |
| 34% | ASHRAM | 6 | In the Mahabharata, it's stated that a youthful Krishna was sent to see Sand?pan? Muni at one of these |
| 34% | NEWYORK | 7 | This state is the location of Rockefeller Center |
| 34% | LUGE | 4 | In this race, the runners are always behind |
| 33% | NIK | 3 | Erendira's husband who walked across the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua on a high wire in March of this year |
| 33% | DANK | 4 | Making a comeback is this "wet and unpleasant" slangy term for something of high quality that originated in the '80s |