| 100% | TRILLIN | 7 | Longtime columnist for The Nation |
| 57% | ANNLANDERS | 10 | Columnist for the lovelorn |
| 57% | ABIGAILVANBUREN | 15 | Columnist for the lovelorn |
| 53% | NORAH | 5 | ___ Vincent, late columnist for the Advocate |
| 52% | JOEWALSH | 8 | Longtime guitarist for the Eagles |
| 51% | EBWHITE | 7 | Longtime essayist for The New Yorker |
| 50% | CAEN | 4 | Longtime columnist who coined the term "beatnik" |
| 50% | WORLDPEACE | 10 | Goal for the United Nations |
| 49% | CHIEF | 5 | Chuck Hoskin, for the Cherokee Nation |
| 48% | INDC | 4 | Visiting the nation's capital, for short |
| 47% | EMBLEM | 6 | Globe with olive branches, for the United Nations |
| 46% | NOONAN | 6 | Writer Peggy known for the phrase "a kinder, gentler nation" |
| 44% | ZAK | 3 | __ Starkey, longtime drummer for The Who |
| 44% | ISR | 3 | Country code for the nation who won its only Olympic gold ever at Athens in 2004 |
| 43% | GREGG | 5 | ___ Popovich, longtime coach for the Spurs |
| 43% | SID | 3 | ___ the Kid (rhyming nickname for longtime Pittsburgh Penguins captain Crosby) |
| 43% | DST | 3 | Practice not observed by the Hopi nation, for short |
| 43% | ILO | 3 | Agency of the United Nations for labour rights : Abbr. |
| 43% | REA | 3 | ___ Irvin, longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker |
| 43% | KAEL | 4 | Longtime film critic for The New Yorker |
| 43% | MAYER | 5 | Jane ___, longtime writer for The New Yorker |
| 43% | ADLER | 5 | Renata ___, longtime journalist for The New Yorker |
| 42% | XXXXX | 5 | Host nation for the 2026 Winter Olympics |
| 42% | RCCOLA | 6 | Longtime beverage sponsor for the New York Mets |
| 41% | LUCIA | 5 | Saint __, one of the only two sovereign nations named for women |
| 40% | FIJI | 4 | South Pacific island nation that was the setting for "Survivor" season 14 |
| 39% | NONCE | 5 | For the ___ |
| 39% | ASKING | 6 | For the ___ |
| 39% | NONCE | 5 | For the _____ |
| 39% | ASKING | 6 | For the __ |