| 100% | UPN | 3 | It merged with the WB to form the CW |
| 53% | INFINITY | 8 | __ pool, it appears to merge with the sea |
| 49% | CIO | 3 | It merged with the AFL |
| 47% | AFL | 3 | It merged with the CIO in 1955 |
| 47% | CIO | 3 | It merged with the AFL in 1955 |
| 47% | ABA | 3 | It merged with the NBA in 1976 |
| 47% | ISERE | 5 | It merges with the Rhone near Valence |
| 47% | GTE | 3 | It merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon |
| 44% | PARABOLA | 8 | Symmetrical curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side |
| 43% | MSNBC | 5 | It began with the slogan "It's time to get connected" |
| 42% | BULLET | 6 | To get it over with, bite the __ |
| 42% | OHIO | 4 | The Allegheny and Monongahela join to form it |
| 41% | DENEB | 5 | With Altair and Vega, it forms the Summer Triangle |
| 41% | TOAST | 5 | It might end with "Here's to the newlyweds!" |
| 41% | ADO | 3 | Suffix with color to form the name of a U.S. state |
| 41% | SOAPSTONE | 9 | It is not possible to do the washing with it |
| 41% | EER | 3 | Suffix with "mountain" to mean the person who climbs it |
| 41% | IMITATION | 9 | It's said to be the sincerest form of flattery |
| 41% | CROUCH | 6 | To get low to the ground; it rhymes with slouch |
| 40% | BROW | 4 | Suffix with eye to mean the hairs above it |
| 40% | SANTA | 5 | It can precede eight first names in this puzzle to form the names of California cities |
| 40% | WIT | 3 | Sarcasm is said to be the lowest form of it |
| 40% | STYE | 4 | Bump that rhymes with the body part where it forms |
| 40% | AARP | 4 | Org. with the motto "The power to make it better" |
| 40% | LEOPARD | 7 | According to Isaiah, it "shall lie down with the kid" |
| 40% | SLANG | 5 | It’s hard to keep up with on the Internet |
| 40% | WRONGNUMBER | 11 | The Cure song with a "ring" to it (2 wds.) |
| 39% | HILL | 4 | "One Tree ___," drama TV series that moved from The WB to The CW in 2006 |
| 39% | END | 3 | Stick with it to the bitter ___ |
| 39% | SNARE | 5 | Devil's ___, magical plant in "Harry Potter" with the ability to strangle anything around it |