| 100% | OTTER | 5 | Mammal name whose etymology is akin to that of "water" |
| 48% | MOHICANS | 8 | Group whose name means "the people of the waters that are never still" |
| 42% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 42% | AEGEANSEA | 9 | Body of water said to be named for a king of Athens |
| 41% | JEANRENO | 8 | French actor whose name becomes that of a French director when IR is added to the end |
| 41% | REDSEA | 6 | Body of water that was parted by Moses, according to Exodus: 2 wds. |
| 41% | LLAMA | 5 | Mammal whose name is spelled using only the letters of "mammal" |
| 41% | FIJI | 4 | Country whose name is a brand of bottled water |
| 41% | LEBARON | 7 | Chrysler model whose name becomes that of a country when its fifth letter is changed to an n |
| 41% | ARAL | 4 | ___ Sea (body of water that used to be roughly the size of West Virginia) |
| 40% | ATACAMA | 7 | Desert whose soil has been compared to that of Mars |
| 39% | SONIC | 5 | Name of the iconic mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, that was originally called Mr. Needlenose |
| 39% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name becomes that of a currency when its second letter is doubled and its last two letters are moved to the front |
| 39% | SUNBELT | 7 | Geographical region whose name is lent to an NCAA Division-1 conference that contains the USA...the University of South Alabama, of course! |
| 39% | APE | 3 | Word that means to imitate someone and is also the name of a primate |
| 38% | KOA | 3 | Camping franchise whose name anagrams to that of a tree |
| 38% | LIGHTNING | 9 | Tampa Bay NHL team whose name is a nonplural noun that's a bolt of electricity |
| 37% | MINNEHAHA | 9 | Literary character whose name is said to mean "laughing water" |
| 37% | QUAIDORSAY | 10 | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 37% | NOELNEILL | 9 | Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 37% | GOOGLE | 6 | Company whose name is spelled with up to 10 O's toward the bottom of its webpages |
| 37% | NOBEL | 5 | Alfred whose name is attached to a series of prestigious prizes |
| 36% | EVIAN | 5 | Water brand whose name in reverse is a word that means "innocent" |
| 36% | NEHI | 4 | Brand whose name was chosen to remind people of its bottles' height |
| 36% | EURYTHMICS | 10 | The name of the rock/pop duo that Annie Lennox - whose birthday it is today - was a part of |
| 36% | SEA | 3 | ___ level change, condition leading to oceanic water level changes that is a proposed theory for the extinction of dinosaurs |
| 36% | UVEA | 4 | Part of your anatomy that makes your blue eyes blue and whose name is derived from the Latin for "grape" |
| 36% | HOCUS | 5 | "___ Pocus 2," 2022 film starring Sarah Jessica Parker that is a sequel to the 1993 film of the same name |
| 35% | NORI | 4 | Food whose name spelled backwards is the name of a nutrient that it contains |
| 35% | BRICS | 5 | Group of countries once expected to drive twenty-first-century economic growth, whose name is an acronym of its five members |