| 100% | ESSEN | 5 | It's about 20 minutes from Düsseldorf Airport by train |
| 41% | ESSEN | 5 | It's about 30 kilometers from Düsseldorf |
| 39% | SUN | 3 | It's about 8 light-minutes from the Earth |
| 39% | AIR | 3 | It's about 20 percent oxygen |
| 38% | BOCA | 4 | It's about 20 miles north of Lauderdale |
| 35% | HEART | 5 | It's strengthened by 20-Across |
| 35% | LOCALSTOP | 9 | It's passed by express trains |
| 35% | KENTSTATE | 9 | It's about an hour's drive from Oberlin |
| 35% | EARTH | 5 | It's about 93 million miles from the sun |
| 35% | MIT | 3 | It's about a mile from Harvard U. |
| 35% | CALIF | 5 | It's about 10 mi. from 53-Down |
| 34% | BUTTE | 5 | It's about an hour and a half drive from Bozeman |
| 33% | PEI | 3 | It's separated from N.B. by the Northumberland Strait |
| 32% | IRELAND | 7 | It's separated from Iceland by a sea (and a "c"!) |
| 32% | SITCOM | 6 | Without ads, it's usually about 21 or 22 minutes |
| 32% | TWOREEL | 7 | Lasting about 20 minutes, as a silent comedy |
| 31% | ETON | 4 | Prep school about an hour by train from London |
| 31% | ZAMBONI | 7 | It resurfaces after 20 minutes |
| 31% | ASIA | 4 | It's separated from North America by the Bering Strait |
| 30% | LUCYINTHESKY | 12 | With 38-Across, a track from 15-Across, sung by Lennon, that faced several controversies about its initials: 4 wds. |
| 29% | LET | 3 | "___ It Go," 2013 song from Disney's "Frozen" by the American singer, Idina Menzel |
| 29% | SDSU | 4 | Calif. school that's about 20 miles from the Mexican border |
| 29% | JUPITER | 7 | "Drops of ___ (Tell Me)," 2001 song by Train with the Solar System's largest planet in its title |
| 29% | MOLEDAY | 7 | It's celebrated by chemists on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. |
| 29% | AMDIAL | 6 | It goes from about 540 to 1700 |
| 29% | ALE | 3 | It contains about 6% alcohol by volume |
| 29% | RENO | 4 | City about 20 miles from Lake Tahoe |
| 29% | DARTS | 5 | It has numbers from 1 to 20 |
| 28% | GAYE | 4 | "Marvin ___," 2015 song by Charlie Puth about the "Let's Get It On" singer |
| 28% | METER | 5 | It might go from 0 to 60 minutes |