| 100% | TIGERSHARK | 10 | Large creature of warm seas with dark vertical stripes on the body |
| 34% | BLUEWHALE | 9 | The largest mammal of all sea creatures |
| 33% | CASPIAN | 7 | __ Sea, largest enclosed body of water on Earth |
| 33% | CASPIAN | 7 | — Sea, largest inland body of water in the world |
| 32% | PORCUPINE | 9 | Large rodent with spines on the body and tail |
| 32% | MOCHA | 5 | Port in Yemen on the Red Sea associated with the export of Arabian coffee |
| 32% | DOLPHIN | 7 | Sea creature pictured on the flag of Anguilla |
| 31% | SPHINX | 6 | Egyptian attraction with a human head on the body of a lion |
| 31% | SUNDA | 5 | — Strait, the body of water between Java and Sumatra linking the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean |
| 31% | PLATYPUS | 8 | Creature with a duck bill and the body of a mammal |
| 30% | OTTER | 5 | Creature with "Underwater eyes, an eel's / Oil of water body," per the poet Ted Hughes |
| 30% | ESCOLAR | 7 | Slender fish of the snake mackerel family with an almost uniformly dark brown body |
| 29% | DENT | 4 | Depression on the body of a vehicle |
| 29% | HAKE | 4 | Food fish of the northern hemisphere with an elongated body, large head and two dorsal fins |
| 29% | DENT | 4 | Small damage on the body of a car |
| 29% | APE | 3 | Large creature in "George of the Jungle" |
| 29% | LEAN | 4 | With very little fat on the body |
| 29% | PORPOISES | 9 | Gregarious creatures of the sea |
| 28% | OTARU | 5 | Port on the Sea of Japan |
| 28% | KOREA | 5 | Land on the Sea of Japan |
| 28% | UKR | 3 | Land on the Sea of Azov: Abbr. |
| 28% | AORTA | 5 | Largest artery of the body |
| 28% | HAMMERHEAD | 10 | Shark of chiefly warm waters with flattened extensions on either side of the head |
| 27% | SITH | 4 | Group on the dark side of the Force |
| 27% | SMALLMINDED | 11 | Petty creature of the Rockies, with 56-Across? |
| 27% | ADRIFT | 6 | Floating untethered on the surface of the sea |
| 27% | BETHSAIDA | 9 | Ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee |
| 27% | ALBATROSS | 9 | Large seabird of the South Seas |
| 27% | COBRA | 5 | Creature on the mask of Tutankhamen |
| 27% | BEAR | 4 | Creature on the flag of California |