| 100% | DANKE | 5 | Merci across the river |
| 72% | BRIDGE | 6 | Way across the river |
| 64% | OMAHA | 5 | City across the river from Council Bluffs |
| 64% | JUAREZ | 6 | City across the river from El Paso |
| 64% | FERRY | 5 | Vehicle Charon takes across the River Styx |
| 64% | DANKE | 5 | Merci, across the border |
| 63% | PONTNEUF | 8 | Oldest bridge across the River Seine in Paris |
| 63% | ELPASO | 6 | It's across the river from Ciudad Juárez |
| 63% | CHARON | 6 | Ferryman who carries souls across the river Styx |
| 62% | OBOL | 4 | Coin to pay for passage across the River Styx |
| 62% | FTERIE | 6 | Ontario city across the river from Buffalo, for short |
| 62% | RABAT | 5 | Capital across the river from its sister city Salé |
| 62% | SALTASH | 7 | Town in Cornwall across the River Tamar from Plymouth |
| 61% | ELPASO | 6 | Texas city across the river from Juárez, Mexico: 2 wds. |
| 61% | BATEAUOUTOFHELL | 15 | Flat-bottomed vessel sailing across the River Styx from Hades? |
| 59% | CAMDEN | 6 | City across the Delaware River from Philadelphia |
| 58% | STEPHEN | 7 | & 24A Author of stage plays Shout Across the River and Strawberry Fields |
| 58% | MANHATTAN | 9 | Borough across the Harlem River from the Bronx |
| 58% | FTERIE | 6 | Ont. city across the Niagara River from Buffalo |
| 58% | AAR | 3 | River across the Lake of Brienz |
| 58% | SAAR | 4 | River across the French/German border |
| 58% | SAR | 3 | River across the French/German border |
| 58% | IDAHO | 5 | The Snake River snakes across it |
| 56% | RAMAPO | 6 | River across the New York/New Jersey border |
| 51% | SAN | 3 | River rising in Ukraine that flows across SE Poland to the Vistula |
| 51% | SAN | 3 | River rising in Ukraine that flows across southeast Poland to the Vistula |
| 49% | INDUS | 5 | River rising in SW Tibet that flows southwest across Pakistan to the Arabian Sea |
| 48% | STYX | 4 | River in Hades in Greek mythology across which Charon ferried the souls of the dead |
| 48% | STYX | 4 | River in Hades in Greek mythology, across which Charon ferried the souls of the dead |