| 100% | ISAR | 4 | Munich's river that is a tributary of the Danube |
| 53% | MARNE | 5 | River in France which is a tributary of the Seine |
| 47% | ZUNIS | 5 | Dwellers along a tributary of the Little Colorado River |
| 47% | YSER | 4 | River that was the scene of WWI fighting |
| 47% | ITASCA | 6 | Lake that is a source of the Mississippi |
| 46% | CHERWELL | 8 | Tributary of the River Thames that flows through Oxford |
| 46% | DES | 3 | ___ Moines, Iowa's capital that is a major center of the US insurance industry |
| 46% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye that may also be a woman's name |
| 46% | RUHR | 4 | River in Germany, a tributary of the Rhine |
| 46% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 45% | MARNE | 5 | River that was the site of battles in both world wars |
| 45% | CROCI | 5 | Flowers that are a source of the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine |
| 45% | SURETE | 6 | French agency that was a predecessor of the FBI |
| 45% | OHIO | 4 | One of the three rivers that Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium is named for |
| 45% | DOT | 3 | Tiny spot that is a part of the letter "i" |
| 45% | GAD | 3 | West Virginia community that disappeared under the waters of Summersville Lake when a river was dammed in the sixties |
| 45% | STAMPTAX | 8 | Colonial grievance that was a cause of the Revolutionary War |
| 45% | DENNISLEHANE | 12 | Author of the 2001 novel "Mystic River" that was made into a 2003 Sean Penn film: 2 wds. |
| 44% | PEA | 3 | Alabama tributary of the Choctawhatchee where sturgeon are making a comeback |
| 44% | WMD | 3 | Big bombs that were a focus of the Iraq War: Abbr. |
| 44% | YEW | 3 | Tree that was the source of the poison in Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye |
| 44% | AISNE | 5 | French river that was the site of three W.W. I battles |
| 44% | MORAVA | 6 | Central European river, tributary of the Danube |
| 43% | APPRENTICE | 10 | "Scentless ___," song by Nirvana that was inspired by Patrick Suskind's "Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer" |
| 43% | VYATKA | 6 | River in Russia, a tributary of the Kama River upon which Kotelnich stands |
| 43% | ILLER | 5 | River that flows into the Danube in the center of Ulm |
| 43% | OHIO | 4 | State that's the title of a Neil Young song (where Cleveland is) |
| 43% | ANGEL | 5 | American TV series that is a spin-off of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" |
| 43% | GSHARP | 6 | Key that is the equivalent of A-flat: Hyph. |
| 43% | TOPAZ | 5 | Birthstone that was the name of a Hitchcock film |