| 100% | VAGUE | 5 | Like the description "somewhere in the U.S." |
| 64% | CHEROKEE | 8 | Like members of the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S. |
| 62% | ATWAR | 5 | Like the U.S. and Spain in 1898 |
| 60% | CAR | 3 | One of 52 million in the U. S. |
| 58% | TENTH | 5 | Like the secretary of commerce, in the U.S. presidential line of succession |
| 57% | ASONANT | 7 | Like the s in aisle |
| 56% | HOT | 3 | Like summers in the southern US |
| 56% | HANDBAG | 7 | Like a purse in the US, or wallet in the UK |
| 56% | EPONYMOUS | 9 | Like George Washington, vis-à-vis 30 counties in the US |
| 56% | COEQUAL | 7 | Like the three branches of the U.S. government |
| 56% | RED | 3 | Like the topmost stripe on the U.S. flag |
| 56% | STARRY | 6 | Like the top left of the U.S. flag |
| 55% | IOLANI | 6 | The only royal palace in the U.S. |
| 55% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers, in the U.S. |
| 54% | MALL | 4 | The largest one in the U.S. is in Bloomington, Minn. |
| 54% | DAM | 3 | The tallest one in the U.S. is California's Oroville |
| 54% | UCLA | 4 | Sch. with the most applications in the U.S. |
| 54% | INC | 3 | Ltd., in the U.S. |
| 54% | ATM | 3 | Cashpoint, in the U.S. |
| 54% | AMER | 4 | Made in the U.S. |
| 54% | ZOO | 3 | Philadelphia had the first one in the U.S. (1874) |
| 54% | LAT | 3 | Alaska has the highest one in the U.S.: Abbr. |
| 53% | MAY | 3 | Mother's Day month in the U.S. |
| 53% | RPI | 3 | First private engineering school in the U.S. |
| 53% | PBS | 3 | Network that airs "Sherlock" in the U.S. |
| 53% | ENL | 3 | In the U.S.M.C., e.g. |
| 53% | UCLA | 4 | Most-applied-to sch. in the U.S. |
| 53% | BASS | 4 | Most popular game fish in the U.S. |
| 53% | TAHOE | 5 | Lake ___, a Western lake in the U.S. |
| 53% | UCLA | 4 | Most-applied-to school in the U.S. |