| 100% | SEINE | 5 | In Hugo's "Les Miserables", the antagonist Janvert drowns himself on June 7, 1832 in this river |
| 29% | LES | 3 | "___ Miserables," musical based on Victor Hugo's novel that is one of the longest-running musicals in the West End |
| 29% | PLOVDIV | 7 | City in S Bulgaria on the Maritsa River |
| 29% | KANDAHAR | 8 | City in S Afghanistan on the Arghandab River |
| 28% | ADANA | 5 | City in S Turkey on the Seyhan River east of Tarsus |
| 28% | TIBER | 5 | Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 BC on the banks of this river |
| 27% | PORTHARCOURT | 12 | City in S Nigeria on the Bonny River in the Niger Delta |
| 27% | LANIER | 6 | Building the Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956 created this lake |
| 27% | PORT | 4 | & 9A City in S Nigeria on the Bonny River in the Niger Delta |
| 27% | REDDEER | 7 | City in S Alberta, Canada, on a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River |
| 26% | WESER | 5 | River in which the Pied Piper drowned Hamelin’s rats, according to legend |
| 26% | HEXED | 5 | Second novel in Kevin Hearne's urban fantasy series, published after "Hounded", on June 7, 2011 |
| 26% | SEIN | 4 | River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" |
| 26% | ORE | 3 | The longest train ever consisted of 682 cars, was 4.5 miles long and carried this product in W. Australia on June 21, 2001 |
| 25% | SLIM | 4 | Alameda ___, fictional cowboy who is the antagonist in Disney's "Home on the Range" |
| 25% | THAMES | 6 | The Three Men in a Boat rowed this river |
| 25% | SEA | 3 | The majority of life on earth lives in this |
| 24% | ESPERANTO | 9 | You can read the news on china.org.cn in this language |
| 24% | WAITING | 7 | On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code |
| 24% | THREETHOUSAND | 13 | Milestone number of hits 18-Across reached on 8/7/2016 (he's the 30th player to achieve this in the MLB): 2 wds. |
| 24% | BOSNIA | 6 | Banja Luka, on the Vrbas River, is this area's second-largest city |
| 24% | TIM | 3 | Where the ball drops on New Year's Eve ... as depicted literally in four places in this puzzle |
| 24% | MICROPHONE | 10 | The "thing" in "Is this thing on?" |
| 24% | MIC | 3 | The thing in "Is this thing on?" |
| 24% | RAIN | 4 | It's summoned by Agwe, the god of water in "Once on This Island" |
| 24% | TENN | 4 | Highest pt on the Appalachian Trl is in this state |
| 24% | LLANELLI | 8 | Industrial town in Carmarthenshire, S Wales, on the Loughor estuary |
| 24% | PDT | 3 | S.F. is on it in the summer |
| 23% | PAULGAUGUIN | 11 | "Two Tahitian Women" painter who was born in Paris on June 7, 1848: 2 wds. |
| 23% | KILKENNY | 8 | City on the River Nore in Leinster, Republic of Ireland, housing St Canice's Cathedral |