| 100% | ALEUT | 5 | Language of which Norwegian linguist Knut Bergsland produced a comprehensive dictionary in 1994 |
| 27% | WOMEN | 5 | "Little ___," 1994 period drama film in which Kirsten Dunst played the role of a younger Amy March |
| 27% | POTALAPALACE | 12 | Iconic dzong fortress in the city of Lhasa which is a World Heritage Site since 1994: 2 wds. |
| 26% | THELIONKING | 11 | Animated film released in 1994 which was influenced by Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and tells the story of a character named Simba: 3 wds. |
| 26% | OED | 3 | Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884 |
| 25% | ASL | 3 | Language in which a fist means "E" |
| 25% | PIGLATIN | 8 | Language in which ebay is a verb |
| 25% | WELSH | 5 | Language in which w can be a vowel |
| 25% | WELSH | 5 | Language in which "w" can be a vowel |
| 25% | MAORI | 5 | Language in which "kia ora" is a greeting |
| 25% | ASL | 3 | Language in which "yes" is a bobbing fist |
| 25% | LAO | 3 | Language in the "Land of a Million Elephants" |
| 25% | THUMBINDEX | 10 | Set of notches in a dictionary |
| 25% | PHONETICS | 9 | Description of sounds in a language |
| 24% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | Tom Hanks' 1994 drama film based on a Winston Groom novel of the same name in which 20a plays his love interest: 2 wds. |
| 24% | URDU | 4 | Language in which "Pakistan" means "land of the pure" |
| 24% | LAO | 3 | Language in which the majority of words are monosyllabic |
| 24% | OLAFI | 5 | First in a series of Norwegian kings |
| 24% | LEXIS | 5 | All of the words in a language |
| 24% | HAMSUN | 6 | Knut —, Norwegian recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 24% | NUNNERY | 7 | A group of buildings in which nuns live, a convent |
| 24% | MESON | 5 | One of many produced in a particle accelerator |
| 24% | DEFINE | 6 | Provide the meaning of, as in a dictionary |
| 24% | MORPHEME | 8 | Smallest meaningful segment of a word in language |
| 24% | ORANG | 5 | Critter of which there is a surprisingly small number left in the world |
| 24% | FAERIES | 7 | Creatures of which Gloriana is the “Queene,” in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| 24% | REBUS | 5 | In which pictures of a bill + gates = a noted business executive |
| 24% | ATLAS | 5 | A book in which you find the map of the world |
| 23% | NOTCH | 5 | One of many in a dictionary's thumb index |
| 23% | RIVERBED | 8 | Bottom of the channel in which a waterway flows |