| 100% | SNAFU | 5 | Mistake whose name has military origins |
| 59% | KOALA | 5 | Marsupial whose name has Aboriginal origins |
| 45% | PECAN | 5 | Nut whose name has multiple pronunciations |
| 45% | EPEE | 4 | Sport whose name has two accents |
| 45% | HSBC | 4 | Bank whose name has no vowels |
| 45% | EPEE | 4 | Weapon whose name has two accents |
| 45% | OAHU | 4 | Island whose name has an okina |
| 44% | PURPLE | 6 | Color whose name has no common rhymes |
| 44% | ORANGE | 6 | Color whose name has no common rhymes |
| 44% | GNU | 3 | Animal whose name has a silent initial |
| 44% | ACAI | 4 | Purple berry whose name has one consonant |
| 44% | AVIA | 4 | Sneaker brand whose name has three vowels |
| 43% | ERIE | 4 | Only Great Lake whose name has four letters |
| 43% | AUDI | 4 | Car company whose name has only one consonant |
| 43% | IOWA | 4 | Corn Belt state whose name has three syllables |
| 43% | XEROX | 5 | Copier company whose name has become a verb |
| 43% | ACAI | 4 | Fruit whose name has three vowels and three syllables |
| 43% | SPELT | 5 | ''Thrice happy he whose name has been well __'': Byron |
| 43% | BREES | 5 | Longtime Saints QB whose name has a windy homophone |
| 43% | OAR | 3 | Band whose name has nothing to do with rowing |
| 42% | DESIIGNER | 9 | "Panda" rapper whose name has one more "i" than expected |
| 41% | KESHA | 5 | Singer whose name once had a ''$'' |
| 41% | MARIMBA | 7 | Instrument whose name is of Bantu origin |
| 40% | XANTHIPPE | 9 | Wife of Socrates, whose name has come to mean any quarrelsome woman |
| 40% | OTTO | 4 | "Beetle Bailey" dog whose name has the same letters as 19-Across |
| 40% | XXXXXX | 6 | Current NFL champions whose name has a specific meaning in another sport |
| 40% | OREO | 4 | Cookie whose name origin is still a mystery |
| 39% | PLATYPUS | 8 | Animal whose name often has duck-billed in it |
| 39% | SCOTCH | 6 | Drink whose name derives from its country of origin |
| 39% | YOLATENGO | 9 | Indie band whose name means, literally, "I have it" |