| 100% | ONGAR | 5 | London Tube station that became disused when the line from Epping closed in 1994 |
| 35% | ONGAR | 5 | Easternmost London Underground station on the Central Line closed in 1994 |
| 27% | EGRET | 5 | Bird that became endangered in the 19th and early 20th century due to demands from hat makers |
| 26% | WHEY | 4 | Watery liquid that separates from the curd when milk is clotted in cheesemaking |
| 26% | SIZEWELL | 8 | Coastal village north of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, that became the site of a Magnox nuclear power station in 1968 |
| 26% | OPS | 3 | Suffix used in taxonomy when naming species that means "face", from the ancient Greek |
| 26% | SPECTRAL | 8 | ___ lines, spooky-sounding term for the colored bands that appear when light is split in physics |
| 24% | WKRP | 4 | Station that went on the air in 1978 |
| 24% | STEPNEY | 7 | Former Metropolitan Borough that became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965 |
| 24% | FLACO | 5 | Owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023 and became an online celebrity, before his death last month |
| 24% | EXPOS | 5 | Team that became the Nationals in 2005 |
| 24% | DODOS | 5 | Flightless birds that became extinct in the 1600s |
| 24% | USPASSPORT | 10 | Item that became trilingual in the late '90s |
| 24% | ROE | 3 | Eggs that become fish in the future, say |
| 23% | NEPTUNE | 7 | Planet in the Solar System that is at 8th position from the Sun and that can become as cold as -330*F |
| 23% | SIMPSONS | 8 | Queen Street store that became The Bay in 1991 |
| 23% | MINISKIRT | 9 | Short clothing item that became popular in the 60s |
| 23% | EXPOS | 5 | MLB team that became the 25-Down in 2005 |
| 23% | CAR | 3 | ___ phones, cellular phones that became affordable in the '90s |
| 23% | DISC | 4 | Compact ___ (music format that became popular in the 1980s) |
| 23% | NED | 3 | Name that becomes a room when read in reverse |
| 23% | EPCOT | 5 | Attraction that dropped the word "Center" from its name in 1994 |
| 23% | MIR | 3 | Space station that landed in the Pacific Ocean in 2001 |
| 23% | AVEO | 4 | Chevy subcompact that became the Sonic in the U.S. |
| 23% | WHALERS | 7 | N.H.L. team that became the Hurricanes in 1997 |
| 23% | AEROS | 5 | Houston hockey squad that became the Iowa Wild in 2013 |
| 23% | EEL | 3 | Fish that became the first coconut tree, in Samoan myth |
| 23% | INDIA | 5 | Country that became the world’s most populous in 2023 |
| 23% | ADLIB | 5 | Line that wasn't in the script: Hyph. |
| 23% | IMNEXT | 6 | Cry from the first in line |